The Orchid Thief Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Susan Orlean
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The Orchid Thief Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Susan Orlean
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Osceola's Head.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Laroche attempt to use to get in for free at the orchid show in Gorgeous?
(a) Susan's press pass.
(b) Orchid seedlings.
(c) An expired coupon.
(d) A fake student identification card.

2. What event had John Laroche attended which got him into plants and horticulture?
(a) The World Orthophytum Show.
(b) The World Bromeliad Show.
(c) The World Connellia Show.
(d) The World Edmundoa Show.

3. When did Charles Darwin publish Fertilization of Orchids?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1869.

4. Orchids from seeds take a long time because many of the plants rarely form what?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Seed pods.
(c) Cotyledons.
(d) Roots.

5. What is a plant that grows upon another plant non-parasitically or sometimes upon some other object, derives its moisture and nutrients from the air and rain and sometimes from debris accumulating around it, and is found in the temperate zone?
(a) Phanerophyte.
(b) Epiphyte.
(c) Chamaephyte.
(d) Cryptophyte.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Frederick Sander meet Benedict Roezl?

2. Laroche told Susan that he understood her love of orchids because they bring about a sort of what in people?

3. Who took Susan for a hike along with two inmates from a work-release program of the Copeland Road Prison?

4. What is the largest genus in the orchid family Orchidaceae?

5. What did John Laroche plan on doing with the orchids he stole in The Millionaire's Hothouse?

(see the answer key)

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