If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
Dr. Seuss

John Quincy Adams

Jonathan Swift

Gerald McGrew
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?
The adult zookeeper

Gerald's mother

An unnamed first-person narrator

Gerald McGrew
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?
2021

2000

1950

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

Cat

Lion

Deer
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 tetrameter

Anapestic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

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

Global Conquest

Imagination

True Love
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

Lazy

Hopeless

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

McGrew Zoo

Razzaloo Zoo

Zazoo 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?
Blue

Red

Green

Yellow
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

Skeegle-mobile

Skidoo
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?
Small wingless flies

Grass and rasberries

Custard and mustard

Buttons and thread
17 What is on the flags that Gerald flies above his vehicles and ships?
GG

McGrew

McG.

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

Skunks

Chipmunks

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?
Babota

Cacota

Smota

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

Asia

Australia

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

Spinner bug

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Tick-Tack-Toe
23 Which humans in the book does Gerald say he doesn't know the names of?
The Zind chieftains

The inhabitants of Yerka

The Persian princes

None of these
24 What red-and-blue creature does Gerald want to catch?
Obsk

Zizanell

Russian Palooski

Nerd
25 How does the story end?
With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

With Gerald standing in the same place as the beginning

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

With Gerald locked up in one of his own cages

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