The Orchid Thief Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Susan Orlean
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The Orchid Thief Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Susan Orlean
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived?
(a) Zygote.
(b) Clone.
(c) Offspring.
(d) Parent.

3. What did Laroche do at the nursery he took Susan to visit in Cloning the Ghost?
(a) Drowned the plants.
(b) Took back some plants.
(c) Burned all the plants.
(d) Sold some orchids.

4. When did Frederick Sander meet Benedict Roezl?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1875.

5. The Seminole tribe were looking for someone to start a nursery because they owned how much land in Florida?
(a) 100 acres.
(b) Millions of acres.
(c) Hundreds of acres.
(d) Thousands of acres.

6. What publication about orchids did Frederick Sander publish?
(a) Reichenbachia.
(b) Classifications of Orchids.
(c) The Orchid Diaries.
(d) Orchidarenisus.

7. Studies at what university encouraged Charles Darwin's passion for natural science?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) University of Cambridge.

8. What is the name of Charles Darwin's work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology?
(a) We Are All Chimps.
(b) Chimp and Human Evolution.
(c) My Evolutionary Argument.
(d) On the Origin of Species.

9. What refers to a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water?
(a) Tundra.
(b) Swamp.
(c) Bog.
(d) Fen.

10. What killed most of Larouche's nursery stock after his car accident?
(a) Hail.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) A frost.
(d) Snow.

11. When was Frederick Sander born?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1828.

12. Orchids are considered the most _____ flowering plants on earth.
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Rare.
(c) Evolved.
(d) Primitive.

13. What refers to an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state, and is legally prohibited?
(a) Negligence.
(b) Judgement.
(c) Crime.
(d) Accident.

14. The Fakahatchee Strand is 25 miles south of where?
(a) Jacksonville, Florida.
(b) Orlando, Florida.
(c) Gainesville, Florida.
(d) Naples, Florida.

15. Susan Orlean has been a staff writer for what periodical since 1992?
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) Time Magazine.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Newsweek.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the family in which snapping turtles belong?

2. What type of orchid produces a series of adjacent shoots which grow to a certain size, bloom and then stop growing, to be then replaced?

3. How many species are in the Epidendrum genus of orchids?

4. Hollywood, Florida is just south of what city?

5. What is a fungicide which was introduced in 1968 by DuPont and is a systemic benzimidazole fungicide that is selectively toxic to microorganisms and to invertebrates, especially earthworms?

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