Q 01/05

What name does Rob Peck give the piglet he receives as a reward in A Day No Pigs Would Die?

A) Wilbur

B) Pinky

C) Blossom

D) Rosie

Answer · why

B) Pinky

Pinky is the first thing Rob has ever owned, a gift from a grateful neighbor. She follows him everywhere, and he spends her first night in her new pen...

Q 02/05

In A Day No Pigs Would Die, what does Rob Peck tie around a calf's head to pull it free?

A) His belt

B) A plough rope

C) His pants

D) His shirt

Answer · why

C) His pants

His pants become a birthing rope: Rob knots one leg to the calf and the other to a tree, so the cow pulls her own calf out as she bolts. She then bite...

Q 03/05

Which Vermont-born US president is in office during the events of A Day No Pigs Would Die?

A) Herbert Hoover

B) Woodrow Wilson

C) Warren G. Harding

D) Calvin Coolidge

Answer · why

D) Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth Notch on the Fourth of July, and Rob's teacher tells her class that Vermonters should be proud of him. The story ...

Q 04/05

Which children's TV host, a college classmate of Robert Newton Peck, was an usher at his wedding?

A) Jim Henson

B) Fred Rogers

C) Art Linkletter

D) Shari Lewis

Answer · why

B) Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers studied alongside Peck at Rollins College, years before Mister Rogers' Neighborhood reached television. Peck said the gentle host was also...

Q 05/05

In A Day No Pigs Would Die, Rob Peck mistakes which Revolutionary War hero for a baseball player on a test?

A) Ethan Allen

B) Paul Revere

C) Nathan Hale

D) John Paul Jones

Answer · why

A) Ethan Allen

Ethan Allen led the Green Mountain Boys, the militia that seized Fort Ticonderoga in 1775. Rob assumes they are a baseball team, one he is forbidden t...