If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
Jonathan Swift

Gerald McGrew

John Quincy Adams

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

An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald McGrew

Gerald's mother
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

AI Technology

Dr. Seuss

Illustrator unknown
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?
1950

2000

2021

2001
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?
Anapestic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
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 pretty good

It's mind-numbingly boring

It's awful

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

Hopeless

Proud

Depressed
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?
Zazoo Zoo

Razzaloo Zoo

McGrew Zoo

Kablue Zoo
12 Which animal does Gerald first imagine?
An elephant with two trunks

Ten-footed lion

Eight-footed cat

A dog who never barks
13 Which color is not used in the illustrations?
Blue

Yellow

Green

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

Scorpion-toad

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?
Small wingless flies

Buttons and thread

Custard and mustard

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

A crucifix

GG

McG.
18 What creatures does Gerald want to catch in Nantucket?
Skunks

Chipmunks

Hunks

Lunks
19 Why can't Gerald's deer recognize their own antlers?
They are entangled with their family members' anters

No reason

They can't look on top of their heads

They are blind
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Smota

Babota

Iota

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

Australia

Africa

Asia
22 What animal has X and O on its stomach?
Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Zheesha Zsho

Tick-Tack-Toe

Spinner bug
23 Which humans in the book does Gerald say he doesn't know the names of?
The Persian princes

The inhabitants of Yerka

The Zind chieftains

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 grown up, running his own zoo

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

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

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