If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

Dr. Seuss

John Quincy Adams

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

Gerald's mother

Gerald McGrew

An unnamed first-person narrator
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?
Dr. Seuss

AI Technology

Gerald McGrew

Illustrator unknown
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?
2021

2001

1950

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

Dog

Deer

Lion
6 Who is the story's protagonist?
Gerald

The ten-footed lion

The adult zookeeper

There is no protagonist
7 In what meter is the book writtten?
Anapestic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

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

Imagination

Global Conquest

True Love
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?
It's mind-numbingly boring

It's pretty good

It's awful

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

Depressed

Hopeless

Lazy
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?
McGrew Zoo

Razzaloo Zoo

Kablue Zoo

Zazoo Zoo
12 Which animal does Gerald first imagine?
A dog who never barks

An elephant with two trunks

Ten-footed lion

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

Red

Yellow

Green
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?
Lizard-bird

Scorpion-toad

Elephant-cat

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

Dogsled

Skidoo

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

Grass and rasberries

Buttons and thread

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

GG

A crucifix

McG.
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

No reason

They are blind

They can't look on top of their heads
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Smota

Iota

Cacota

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

Australia

Asia

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

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Zheesha Zsho

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

The Zind chieftains

The Persian princes

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

Obsk

Zizanell

Nerd
25 How does the story end?
With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

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

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

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