If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

By Maxwell Olson · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed July 27, 2021

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?

John Quincy Adams

Dr. Seuss

Gerald McGrew

Jonathan Swift
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?

Gerald's mother

An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald McGrew

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

AI Technology

Gerald McGrew

Dr. Seuss

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

2001

2021

1950

2000
5 What real animal is lying in the cage when Gerald arrives at the zoo?

Lion

Deer

Dog

Cat
6 Who is the story's protagonist?

The ten-footed lion

The adult zookeeper

There is no protagonist

Gerald
7 In what meter is the book writtten?

Anapestic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter
8 Which answer is not a major theme?

Imagination

Global Conquest

Public Recognition

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

It's pretty good

It's mind-numbingly boring

It's awful

It's fantastic
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

Kablue Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

Razzaloo 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?

Blue

Red

Yellow

Green
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?

Skidoo

Seadoo

Dogsled

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

Custard and mustard

Buttons and thread

Grass and rasberries

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

McG.

GG

McGrew

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

Hunks

Chipmunks

Lunks

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

They are blind

They can't look on top of their heads

No reason

They are entangled with their family members' anters
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?

Smota

Babota

Iota

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

Antarctica

Asia

Africa

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

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Zheesha Zsho

Tick-Tack-Toe

Spinner bug
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?

Zizanell

Russian Palooski

Nerd

Obsk
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 standing in the same place as the beginning

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

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