If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

Jonathan Swift

John Quincy Adams

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

Gerald McGrew

An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald's mother
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?
1950

2001

2021

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?
The adult zookeeper

Gerald

There is no protagonist

The ten-footed lion
7 In what meter is the book writtten?
Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?
Global Conquest

True Love

Imagination

Public Recognition
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?
It's awful

It's pretty good

It's fantastic

It's mind-numbingly boring
10 How does the zookeeper seem to Gerald at the beginning?
Hopeless

Lazy

Proud

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

Razzaloo Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

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

Ten-footed lion

Eight-footed cat

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

Green

Yellow

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

Dog-cat

Elephant-cat

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?
GG

McG.

A crucifix

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

Lunks

Hunks

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

They are blind

They can't look on top of their heads

No reason
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Smota

Iota

Cacota

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

Antarctica

Asia

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

Tick-Tack-Toe

Zheesha Zsho

Spinner bug
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

Nerd

Obsk

Russian Palooski
25 How does the story end?
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

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

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