If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

Dr. Seuss

Jonathan Swift

John Quincy Adams
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald's mother

Gerald McGrew

The adult zookeeper

An unnamed first-person narrator
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

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Illustrator unknown

Dr. Seuss
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?
2021

2000

2001

1950
5 What real animal is lying in the cage when Gerald arrives at the zoo?
Lion

Deer

Cat

Dog
6 Who is the story's protagonist?
The ten-footed lion

Gerald

There is no protagonist

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

Anapestic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?
Public Recognition

Imagination

True Love

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

It's mind-numbingly boring

It's pretty good

It's fantastic
10 How does the zookeeper seem to Gerald at the beginning?
Hopeless

Depressed

Lazy

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

Kablue Zoo

Razzaloo Zoo

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

Eight-footed cat

An elephant with two trunks

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

Blue

Red

Yellow
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?
Dog-cat

Scorpion-toad

Lizard-bird

Elephant-cat
15 What does Gerald drive in the North Pole?
Dogsled

Skidoo

Skeegle-mobile

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

Grass and rasberries

Custard and mustard

Small wingless flies
17 What is on the flags that Gerald flies above his vehicles and ships?
McG.

McGrew

A crucifix

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

Hunks

Chipmunks

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

No reason

They can't look on top of their heads

They are blind
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Cacota

Iota

Smota

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

Africa

Antarctica

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

Tick-Tack-Toe

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Zheesha Zsho
23 Which humans in the book does Gerald say he doesn't know the names of?
The Persian princes

The Zind chieftains

The inhabitants of Yerka

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 locked up in one of his own cages

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

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

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