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

Dr. Seuss

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

The adult zookeeper

An unnamed first-person narrator

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?
2000

2001

1950

2021
5 What real animal is lying in the cage when Gerald arrives at the zoo?
Dog

Deer

Cat

Lion
6 Who is the story's protagonist?
Gerald

The ten-footed lion

The adult zookeeper

There is no protagonist
7 In what meter is the book writtten?
Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?
True Love

Imagination

Public Recognition

Global Conquest
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?
It's mind-numbingly boring

It's awful

It's fantastic

It's pretty good
10 How does the zookeeper seem to Gerald at the beginning?
Proud

Hopeless

Depressed

Lazy
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?
Razzaloo Zoo

Zazoo 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

Red

Green

Yellow
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?
Dogsled

Skidoo

Skeegle-mobile

Seadoo
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?
Grass and rasberries

Buttons and thread

Small wingless flies

Custard and mustard
17 What is on the flags that Gerald flies above his vehicles and ships?
GG

McGrew

A crucifix

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

Lunks

Hunks

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

They can't look on top of their heads

They are entangled with their family members' anters

No reason
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Cacota

Babota

Iota

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

Asia

Africa

Antarctica
22 What animal has X and O on its stomach?
Spinner bug

Zheesha Zsho

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Tick-Tack-Toe
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?
Obsk

Nerd

Russian Palooski

Zizanell
25 How does the story end?
With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

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

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

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