If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?

Dr. Seuss

John Quincy Adams

Gerald McGrew

Jonathan Swift
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?

Gerald's mother

The adult zookeeper

An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald McGrew
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?

Gerald McGrew

Illustrator unknown

AI Technology

Dr. Seuss
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?

2021

1950

2001

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

Deer

Cat

Lion

Dog
6 Who is the story's protagonist?

Gerald

There is no protagonist

The ten-footed lion

The adult zookeeper
7 In what meter is the book writtten?

Anapestic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?

True Love

Public Recognition

Imagination

Global Conquest
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?

It's mind-numbingly boring

It's awful

It's pretty good

It's fantastic
10 How does the zookeeper seem to Gerald at the beginning?

Lazy

Hopeless

Depressed

Proud
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?

Razzaloo Zoo

McGrew Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

Kablue Zoo
12 Which animal does Gerald first imagine?

An elephant with two trunks

Ten-footed lion

A dog who never barks

Eight-footed cat
13 Which color is not used in the illustrations?

Green

Red

Yellow

Blue
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?

Lizard-bird

Elephant-cat

Scorpion-toad

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

Skidoo

Skeegle-mobile

Dogsled

Seadoo
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?

Buttons and thread

Grass and rasberries

Small wingless flies

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

GG

A crucifix

McG.

McGrew
18 What creatures does Gerald want to catch in Nantucket?

Hunks

Chipmunks

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?

Babota

Iota

Smota

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

Africa

Australia

Antarctica

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

Spinner bug

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Tick-Tack-Toe

Zheesha Zsho
23 Which humans in the book does Gerald say he doesn't know the names of?

The Zind chieftains

The Persian princes

The inhabitants of Yerka

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

Zizanell

Russian Palooski

Obsk

Nerd
25 How does the story end?

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

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

With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

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