If I Ran the Zoo Quizzes

If I Ran the Zoo Quiz 1

1 Who wrote If I Ran the Zoo?
Jonathan Swift

John Quincy Adams

Gerald McGrew

Dr. Seuss
2 Who narrates the majority of If I Ran the Zoo?
Gerald's mother

The adult zookeeper

Gerald McGrew

An unnamed first-person narrator
3 Who illustrated If I Ran the Zoo?
Illustrator unknown

Dr. Seuss

Gerald McGrew

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4 In what year was If I Ran the Zoo first published?
2021

2001

1950

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

Deer

Lion

Cat
6 Who is the story's protagonist?
Gerald

The adult zookeeper

The ten-footed lion

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

Anapestic pentameter

Anapestic tetrameter

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

True Love

Global Conquest

Imagination
9 What is Gerald's first impression of the zoo?
It's fantastic

It's awful

It's pretty good

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

Hopeless

Depressed

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

Razzaloo Zoo

Zazoo Zoo

McGrew 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?
Red

Green

Blue

Yellow
14 What hybrid animal does Gerald conjure up?
Scorpion-toad

Elephant-cat

Dog-cat

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

Skidoo

Seadoo

Dogsled
16 What do the Bustard and Flustard eat?
Grass and rasberries

Buttons and thread

Small wingless flies

Custard and mustard
17 What is on the flags that Gerald flies above his vehicles and ships?
McG.

McGrew

GG

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

Lunks

Skunks

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

They can't look on top of their heads

They are entangled with their family members' anters

They are blind
20 What animal lives in North Dakota?
Cacota

Iota

Smota

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

Asia

Australia

Antarctica
22 What animal has X and O on its stomach?
Spinner bug

Tick-Tack-Toe

Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moo

Zheesha Zsho
23 Which humans in the book does Gerald say he doesn't know the names of?
The Persian princes

The inhabitants of Yerka

The Zind chieftains

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

Nerd

Russian Palooski

Zizanell
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 locked up in one of his own cages

With Gerald grown up, running his own zoo

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