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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anyone Can Grow Orchids.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Although it was illegal for Laroche to bring a plant out of the Fakahatchee, it was legal for who to do so?
(a) His wife.
(b) Texans.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) Immigrants.

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

4. When was William Spencer Cavendish born?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1795.
(d) 1799.

5. How many species are in the Epidendrum genus of orchids?
(a) 355.
(b) 357.
(c) 1100.
(d) 1875.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what profession was Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward?

2. What is a venomous pit viper species found in the southeastern United States which is the heaviest (though not longest) venomous snake in the Americas and the largest rattlesnake?

3. Whose family had owned the Orchid Jungle before winning the lottery?

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?

5. Where did Susan attend an orchid show with Laroche in Cloning the Ghost?

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