Dr. Seuss Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A passage features tweetle beetles battling with paddles in a puddle. Which book is the reader holding?
Dr. Seuss’s ABC
Hop on Pop
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
Fox in Socks
2. What was Dr. Seuss’s full name?
Samuel Seuss Gardner
Thomas Theodore Geisel
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Theodore Seuss Giesel
3. Two neighboring societies escalate a conflict over which side of bread should be buttered. Which book does this scenario describe?
The Butter Battle Book
The Sneetches and Other Stories
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
If I Ran the Circus
4. A traveler in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! becomes stuck among people who are postponing action and expecting something to happen. Where has the traveler arrived?
The Jungle of Nool
The Waiting Place
The Prairie of Prax
Mulberry Street
5. What does the Lorax say he speaks for?
Children who cannot sleep
The Whos
The animals in the zoo
The trees
6. What unusual problem does Bartholomew face in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins?
Every hat he wears changes color
Each removed hat is immediately replaced by another
His hat makes him invisible to King Derwin
His hat grows whenever he tells a lie
7. Which companion-and-location pairing is explicitly proposed in Green Eggs and Ham?
With a fox in a box
With a goat in the rain
With a mouse in a train
With a bear in a tree
8. Which sequence correctly completes the title One Fish Two Fish _____?
Old Fish New Fish
Red Fish Blue Fish
Green Fish Gold Fish
Fast Fish Slow Fish
9. At the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, why does stealing the Whos’ possessions fail to stop their celebration?
Cindy-Lou Who secretly replaces every gift
The Whos recover everything before sunrise
The Grinch mistakenly steals from a neighboring town
The Grinch learns that Christmas means more than store-bought things
10. By how many sizes does the Grinch’s heart grow when he understands the meaning of Christmas?
One size
Two sizes
Three sizes
Ten sizes
11. In Yertle the Turtle, Yertle orders turtles to form a taller and taller throne. What event finally causes the stack to collapse?
Yertle jumps after seeing the moon
The other turtles begin marching away
A storm washes the turtles into the pond
Mack, the turtle at the bottom, burps
12. In The Sneetches, McBean repeatedly profits as the Sneetches add and remove stars. What most directly keeps his business going?
The Sneetches need stars to enter their homes
The stars disappear naturally every evening
They keep chasing a changing symbol of social status
McBean persuades them that stars improve their health
13. On a cold, wet day in The Cat in the Hat, who unexpectedly arrives to entertain the two children?
The Cat in the Hat
Sam-I-Am
The Grinch
The Lorax
14. In Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book, whose small yawn begins the spreading wave of sleepiness?
JoJo
Van Vleck
Marco
Conrad Cornelius o’Donald o’Dell
15. Horton remains on Mayzie’s egg through severe weather and public ridicule. What eventually emerges from the egg?
A tiny Who
A bird wearing Horton’s hat
A creature combining features of an elephant and a bird
A young turtle with a long trunk
16. Horton defends the Whos by declaring, “A person’s a person, no matter how _____.”
small
strange
quiet
far