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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What type of orchid has a stem which grows from a single bud in which leaves are added from the apex each year, and the stem grows longer accordingly?
(a) Monopodial.
(b) Tripodial.
(c) Sympodial.
(d) Autopodial.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the Ghost Orchid blossom?

2. What did Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward put into a jar and then forget about it?

3. What is the genus of the Ghost Orchid?

4. Orchids from seeds take a long time because many of the plants rarely form what?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Susan decide to go into the Fakahatchee Strand in A Green Hell? How did she feel entering it?

2. What demolished the remainder of Laroche's nursery before he worked for the Seminoles?

3. What did the judge concur after hearing Laroche at trial in The Millionaire's Hothouse? Where did Laroche take Susan afterward?

4. What does Susan remark about the power of orchids on people in Orchid Fever?

5. What is special about the pollination of orchids?

6. Who were Frederick Sander and Benedict Roezl?

7. Why had Laroche chosen orchids for cultivation? What did he begin with?

8. What does an orchid do when pollinating? What are orchids' habitat?

9. What scene did Laroche cause at a friend's nursery in Cloning the Ghost?

10. How many species of orchids are there? How are they named?

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