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

Jonathan Swift

John Quincy Adams
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?

Gerald's mother

An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald McGrew

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

Dr. Seuss

Gerald McGrew

AI Technology

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

2000

2001

2021

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

Lion

Dog

Deer

Cat
6 Who is the story's protagonist?

Gerald

The ten-footed lion

There is no protagonist

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

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?

Public Recognition

Global Conquest

True Love

Imagination
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?

Proud

Lazy

Depressed

Hopeless
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?

McGrew Zoo

Kablue Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

Razzaloo Zoo
12 Which animal does Gerald first imagine?

An elephant with two trunks

A dog who never barks

Ten-footed lion

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

Blue

Green

Red

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?

Dogsled

Skeegle-mobile

Seadoo

Skidoo
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?

Small wingless flies

Custard and mustard

Grass and rasberries

Buttons and thread
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?

Skunks

Chipmunks

Lunks

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

They can't look on top of their heads

No reason

They are blind

They are entangled with their family members' anters
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?

Smota

Iota

Babota

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

Australia

Africa

Antarctica

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

Tick-Tack-Toe

Spinner bug

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 Persian princes

The inhabitants of Yerka

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 standing in the same place as the beginning

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

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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