If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?

Jonathan Swift

John Quincy Adams

Gerald McGrew

Dr. Seuss
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?

An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald's mother

Gerald McGrew

The adult zookeeper
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?

Dr. Seuss

Illustrator unknown

Gerald McGrew

AI Technology
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?

2001

2021

1950

2000
5 What real animal is lying in the cage when Gerald arrives at the zoo?

Cat

Deer

Dog

Lion
6 Who is the story's protagonist?

The adult zookeeper

Gerald

There is no protagonist

The ten-footed lion
7 In what meter is the book writtten?

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?

True Love

Imagination

Global Conquest

Public Recognition
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?

It's awful

It's fantastic

It's pretty good

It's mind-numbingly boring
10 How does the zookeeper seem to Gerald at the beginning?

Lazy

Hopeless

Depressed

Proud
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?

McGrew Zoo

Kablue Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

Razzaloo Zoo
12 Which animal does Gerald first imagine?

Eight-footed cat

An elephant with two trunks

A dog who never barks

Ten-footed lion
13 Which color is not used in the illustrations?

Red

Green

Blue

Yellow
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?

Scorpion-toad

Dog-cat

Lizard-bird

Elephant-cat
15 What does Gerald drive in the North Pole?

Skeegle-mobile

Dogsled

Seadoo

Skidoo
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?

Grass and rasberries

Small wingless flies

Buttons and thread

Custard and mustard
17 What is on the flags that Gerald flies above his vehicles and ships?

McGrew

GG

McG.

A crucifix
18 What creatures does Gerald want to catch in Nantucket?

Chipmunks

Hunks

Lunks

Skunks
19 Why can't Gerald's deer recognize their own antlers?

They are entangled with their family members' anters

They can't look on top of their heads

They are blind

No reason
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?

Iota

Cacota

Babota

Smota
21 On what continent is Yerka, according to the book?

Australia

Asia

Antarctica

Africa
22 What animal has X and O on its stomach?

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Spinner bug

Zheesha Zsho

Tick-Tack-Toe
23 Which humans in the book does Gerald say he doesn't know the names of?

The Zind chieftains

The inhabitants of Yerka

The Persian princes

None of these
24 What red-and-blue creature does Gerald want to catch?

Nerd

Zizanell

Obsk

Russian Palooski
25 How does the story end?

With Gerald in the mouth of the Wizza-ma Fizza-ma Dill

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

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