If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
Dr. Seuss

John Quincy Adams

Jonathan Swift

Gerald McGrew
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?
An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald McGrew

Gerald's mother

The adult zookeeper
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

AI Technology

Illustrator unknown

Dr. Seuss
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?
1950

2000

2001

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

Lion

Deer

Cat
6 Who is the story's protagonist?
Gerald

The ten-footed lion

There is no protagonist

The adult zookeeper
7 In what meter is the book writtten?
Iambic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?
Global Conquest

Imagination

Public Recognition

True Love
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?
It's awful

It's fantastic

It's pretty good

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

Lazy

Hopeless

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

Zazoo Zoo

Razzaloo Zoo

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

Ten-footed lion

A dog who never barks

Eight-footed cat
13 Which color is not used in the illustrations?
Green

Yellow

Blue

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

Dog-cat

Scorpion-toad

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

Seadoo

Dogsled

Skeegle-mobile
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?
Small wingless flies

Custard and mustard

Grass and rasberries

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

McGrew

McG.

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

Chipmunks

Hunks

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

They are entangled with their family members' anters

No reason

They can't look on top of their heads
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Cacota

Smota

Babota

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

Asia

Australia

Antarctica
22 What animal has X and O on its stomach?
Zheesha Zsho

Spinner bug

Tick-Tack-Toe

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo
23 Which humans in the book does Gerald say he doesn't know the names of?
The inhabitants of Yerka

The Persian princes

The Zind chieftains

None of these
24 What red-and-blue creature does Gerald want to catch?
Zizanell

Russian Palooski

Obsk

Nerd
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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