If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
John Quincy Adams

Dr. Seuss

Jonathan Swift

Gerald McGrew
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald's mother

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

Dr. Seuss

AI Technology

Illustrator unknown
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?
2000

2021

2001

1950
5 What real animal is lying in the cage when Gerald arrives at the zoo?
Dog

Lion

Deer

Cat
6 Who is the story's protagonist?
Gerald

There is no protagonist

The adult zookeeper

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

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic tetrameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?
Public Recognition

Global Conquest

Imagination

True Love
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?
It's awful

It's pretty good

It's mind-numbingly boring

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

Depressed

Hopeless

Proud
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?
Razzaloo Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

Kablue Zoo

McGrew Zoo
12 Which animal does Gerald first imagine?
Eight-footed cat

Ten-footed lion

A dog who never barks

An elephant with two trunks
13 Which color is not used in the illustrations?
Blue

Green

Red

Yellow
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?
Dog-cat

Elephant-cat

Lizard-bird

Scorpion-toad
15 What does Gerald drive in the North Pole?
Skidoo

Skeegle-mobile

Seadoo

Dogsled
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?
Custard and mustard

Buttons and thread

Grass and rasberries

Small wingless flies
17 What is on the flags that Gerald flies above his vehicles and ships?
A crucifix

GG

McG.

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

Skunks

Chipmunks

Lunks
19 Why can't Gerald's deer recognize their own antlers?
They are blind

They are entangled with their family members' anters

They can't look on top of their heads

No reason
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Iota

Smota

Cacota

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

Antarctica

Africa

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

Tick-Tack-Toe

Zheesha Zsho

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo
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?
Zizanell

Nerd

Russian Palooski

Obsk
25 How does the story end?
With Gerald in the mouth of the Wizza-ma Fizza-ma Dill

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

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