The Lorax Quizzes

The Lorax Quiz

1 What is the best description of the Street of the Lifted Lorax?
Fantastical

Neat and orderly

Dark and desolate

Bright and cheery
2 What is the best description of the spot from which the Lorax was lifted away?
A small house

A Truffula tree

A tree trunk

A hole in the ground
3 How might you describe the Once-ler's personality?
Boisterous and exuberant

Friendly and warm

Tranquil

Gruff and shy
4 What does the Once-ler look like as he tells the story?
He is dressed in his pijamas

The illustration only shows his eyes peeking out of the window

Downcast and sad

Regretful
5 What is the payment for the Once-ler's story?
A bit of soil from the ground

Fifteen cents and a nail

The seed of a Truffula tree

Fifteen cents, a nail, and the shell of a great-great-great-grandfather snail
6 How does the Once-ler collect payment?
He invites the listener up to his lair

He asks the listener to toss it up to his window

He lowers down a bucket to the ground

He comes down to the ground himself to retrieve it
7 What is the name of the device by which the Once-ler communicates his story?
Lorax

Whisper ma-Phone

Telephone

Whisper Phone
8 How long ago does the Once-ler's story begin?
In the future

A week ago

A long, long time back

Before the Once-ler was born
9 What excited the Once-ler most about the Truffula Trees?
Their colors

Their soft and sweet-smelling tufts

The way they provided habitat for so many animals

They reminded him of his home
10 What sound do the fish that the Once-ler describes make?
Buzzing

Humming

Yelling

Croaking
11 What does the Once-ler do upon seeing the beautiful trees?
He sets up shop and chops down a tree to make a garment to sell

He carves a home for himself inside the trunk of an old tree

He turns the forest into a nature reserve

He begins to plant even more trees
12 What is the Once-ler's invention called?
A Thneed

A Truffula robe

A Lorax

A Bar-ba-loot
13 How does the Once-ler make the Thneed?
Screen printing

Crocheting

Sewing

Knitting
14 Where does the Lorax appear from?
The Thneed

The sky

A tree trunk

The Once-ler's shop
15 What does the Once-ler use to chop down the first Truffula tree?
An axe

A lightning bolt

A knife

A machine
16 How is the Lorax first portrayed by the Once-ler?
Wise

Kind

Cruel

Bossy
17 What is a use that the Once-ler does NOT mention for his Thneed?
socks

pillows

carpets

tablecloths
18 What event immediately proves the Lorax wrong?
A new Truffula Tree pops up from the old one's trunk

Someone buys a Thneed for $3.98

There is already a successful Thneed business in town

The Once-ler stops chopping down trees after he sells his first Thneed
19 Who does the Lorax speak for?
The Brown Bar-ba-loots

The trees

The Humming Fish

The air
20 How does the Once-ler make his business grow faster?
He employs the Lorax

He invents a machine that chops down four Truffula trees at the time

He employs the Brown Bar-ba-loots

He plants a new tree for every one he chops down
21 Which is the first creature to suffer from the Once-ler's business?
Mosquitos

The Humming Fish

The Brown bar-ba-loots

The Swomee-Swans
22 What is the Once-ler's ultimate response to the Lorax's concerns?
He repents and halts business immediately

He feels remorseful but continues his business anyway

He gets upset and plans to get bigger and bigger

He gets upset and forces the Lorax to work for him
23 What ultimately stops the Once-ler's business?
His relatives quit

He runs out of Truffula trees

He realizes that he has destroyed the surrounding environment

The Lorax insists he stop
24 What does the Lorax do when the Once-ler's factory shuts down?
He stays to help rebuild the forest

He moves in to town

He lifts himself up by the seat of his pants and flies away into the sky

He moves in with the Once-ler
25 What lesson does the Lorax leave behind?
Everything will stay the same unless someone comes along who cares enough to fix it

If they want a change, they can call the Lorax to come back and fix it

Everything will stay the same forever

The Once-ler must fix what his mistakes have made

how is the thneed customers introduced in lorax

Lessons from The Lorax: Consumerism and Thneeds, Part II

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Answered by Purity W #1350210 on 8/9/2024 8:01 PM

The issue is environmentalism, the cost of cutting down of trees, and Lorax's determination to speak for the trees because they cannot speak for themselves. The Lorax advocates for custodial guardianship, or taking responsibility for nature. This...

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What is the significance of the name “Thneed”?

A Thneed represents the consumer goods that are marketed as necessary items, and thus produced at a frenzy at great cost to the environment.

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