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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Orchid Fever.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alligators have remained largely unchanged for how many years?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 2 billion.
(d) 200 million.

2. Where did Susan witness John Laroche's trial in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Tampa, Florida.
(b) Savannah, Ga.
(c) Miami, Florida.
(d) Naples, Florida.

3. What refers to any of a class of angiosperm plants having a single cotyledon in the seed?
(a) Eudicot.
(b) Monocot.
(c) Austrobaileyale.
(d) Magnoliid.

4. When was Susan Orlean born?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1955.

5. What is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis, or cone scale?
(a) Bract.
(b) Sheath.
(c) Lamina.
(d) Frond.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Susan first read about John Laroche?

2. Although it was illegal for Laroche to bring a plant out of the Fakahatchee, it was legal for who to do so?

3. What is the genus of the Ghost Orchid?

4. The Fakahatchee Strand is 25 miles south of where?

5. Studies at what university encouraged Charles Darwin's passion for natural science?

(see the answer key)

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