If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

John Quincy Adams

Dr. Seuss

Jonathan Swift
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

Dr. Seuss

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?
Cat

Lion

Dog

Deer
6 Who is the story's protagonist?
There is no protagonist

The ten-footed lion

The adult zookeeper

Gerald
7 In what meter is the book writtten?
Iambic pentameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic tetrameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?
Imagination

Public Recognition

True Love

Global Conquest
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?
It's pretty good

It's mind-numbingly boring

It's fantastic

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

Depressed

Hopeless

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

Razzaloo Zoo

Kablue Zoo

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

Eight-footed cat

A dog who never barks

Ten-footed lion
13 Which color is not used in the illustrations?
Yellow

Blue

Green

Red
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?
Scorpion-toad

Dog-cat

Elephant-cat

Lizard-bird
15 What does Gerald drive in the North Pole?
Skeegle-mobile

Seadoo

Dogsled

Skidoo
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?
Buttons and thread

Custard and mustard

Small wingless flies

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

McGrew

McG.

GG
18 What creatures does Gerald want to catch in Nantucket?
Lunks

Skunks

Chipmunks

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

They are entangled with their family members' anters

They can't look on top of their heads

No reason
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Iota

Cacota

Babota

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

Africa

Asia

Antarctica
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?
Obsk

Zizanell

Russian Palooski

Nerd
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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