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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John Laroche plan on doing with the orchids he stole in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Press them.
(b) Sell them.
(c) Cultivate them.
(d) Clone them.

2. When did Hurricane Andrew hit the U.S. coast?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1990.

3. When was Charles Darwin born?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1809.

4. Where did Susan first read about John Laroche?
(a) A short story.
(b) A news article.
(c) A letter from a friend.
(d) A police report.

5. How many acres make up the Fakahatchee Strand?
(a) 24,000.
(b) 143,775.
(c) 63,000.
(d) 36,450.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did John Laroche find out about the job working for the Seminoles?

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

3. What refers to a trait that is shared by two or more taxa and their most recent common ancestor, whose ancestor in turn does not possess the trait?

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

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