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?
An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald's mother

The adult zookeeper

Gerald McGrew
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald McGrew

Illustrator unknown

Dr. Seuss

AI Technology
4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?
2000

2001

1950

2021
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?
The adult zookeeper

There is no protagonist

Gerald

The ten-footed lion
7 In what meter is the book writtten?
Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Anapestic tetrameter

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

Imagination

Global Conquest

True Love
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?
It's mind-numbingly boring

It's fantastic

It's pretty good

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

Hopeless

Lazy

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

Razzaloo Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

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

Ten-footed lion

An elephant with two trunks

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

Red

Yellow

Green
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?
Lizard-bird

Dog-cat

Scorpion-toad

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

Dogsled

Skidoo

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

Small wingless flies

Grass and rasberries

Custard and mustard
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?
Skunks

Chipmunks

Hunks

Lunks
19 Why can't Gerald's deer recognize their own antlers?
No reason

They are entangled with their family members' anters

They are blind

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

Iota

Smota

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

Australia

Antarctica

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

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Spinner bug

Tick-Tack-Toe
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?
Nerd

Zizanell

Russian Palooski

Obsk
25 How does the story end?
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

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

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