If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?

John Quincy Adams

Jonathan Swift

Dr. Seuss

Gerald McGrew
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

Illustrator unknown

AI Technology

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

2021

2001

2000

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

Lion

Dog

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?

Anapestic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?

Imagination

Global Conquest

True Love

Public Recognition
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?

It's fantastic

It's pretty good

It's awful

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

Hopeless

Proud

Lazy

Depressed
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?

McGrew Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

Razzaloo Zoo

Kablue Zoo
12 Which animal does Gerald first imagine?

Ten-footed lion

A dog who never barks

An elephant with two trunks

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

Red

Yellow

Blue

Green
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?

Elephant-cat

Scorpion-toad

Dog-cat

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

Seadoo

Dogsled

Skidoo

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?

A crucifix

McG.

McGrew

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

Hunks

Skunks

Lunks

Chipmunks
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?

Babota

Iota

Cacota

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

Antarctica

Australia

Africa

Asia
22 What animal has X and O on its stomach?

Spinner bug

Zheesha Zsho

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?

Nerd

Obsk

Russian Palooski

Zizanell
25 How does the story end?

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

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

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