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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Laroche, there is a lot of what to be made in the plant world?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Fame.
(c) Progress.
(d) Money.

2. 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) Epiphyte.
(b) Phanerophyte.
(c) Cryptophyte.
(d) Chamaephyte.

3. At what strength did Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida?
(a) Category 4.
(b) Category 1.
(c) Category 5.
(d) Category 3.

4. After Hurricane Andrew hit, Laroche had given up his nursery business forever, saying that he would die of what if he ever opened one up again?
(a) Execution.
(b) Drowning.
(c) A broken heart.
(d) A heart attack.

5. From what university did Susan Orlean graduate?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) The University of Michigan.
(c) The University of Indiana.
(d) The University of Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What killed most of Larouche's nursery stock after his car accident?

2. Where did the park ranger which Susan met in A Green Hell take her?

3. What is the genus of the Ghost Orchid?

4. John Laroche claimed of his family that the Laroches were a family of what?

5. What did Laroche do at the nursery he took Susan to visit in Cloning the Ghost?

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