If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?

John Quincy Adams

Gerald McGrew

Dr. Seuss

Jonathan Swift
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

Dr. Seuss

AI Technology

Illustrator unknown
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?

2000

1950

2021

2001
5 What real animal is lying in the cage when Gerald arrives at the zoo?

Deer

Lion

Dog

Cat
6 Who is the story's protagonist?

The ten-footed lion

Gerald

The adult zookeeper

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

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter
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 mind-numbingly boring

It's awful

It's pretty good

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

Depressed

Proud

Hopeless

Lazy
11 What does Gerald call his imagined zoo?

McGrew Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

Kablue Zoo

Razzaloo 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?

Blue

Green

Red

Yellow
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?

Lizard-bird

Scorpion-toad

Dog-cat

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

Dogsled

Skeegle-mobile

Skidoo

Seadoo
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?

Grass and rasberries

Buttons and thread

Custard and mustard

Small wingless flies
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?

Chipmunks

Skunks

Lunks

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

Smota

Babota

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

Asia

Antarctica

Africa

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

Tick-Tack-Toe

Spinner bug

Zheesha Zsho

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo
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

Russian Palooski

Nerd

Zizanell
25 How does the story end?

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

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

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