The Orchid Thief Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Susan Orlean
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Orchid Thief Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What park ranger did Susan meet in A Green Hell?
(a) Troy.
(b) Mark.
(c) Mike.
(d) Tony.

3. What word refers to the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image or desire?
(a) Erratic.
(b) Fondness.
(c) Impulsive.
(d) Obsession.

4. John Laroche claimed his plan was to teach the Seminoles everything he knows about what?
(a) Cypress trees.
(b) The swamp.
(c) Botany.
(d) Nature.

5. What event had John Laroche attended which got him into plants and horticulture?
(a) The World Orthophytum Show.
(b) The World Edmundoa Show.
(c) The World Connellia Show.
(d) The World Bromeliad Show.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was put into a coma from the car accident John Laroche had?

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

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

4. Although it was illegal for Laroche to bring a plant out of the Fakahatchee, it was legal for who to do so?

5. John Laroche was in a car accident which led to what defect?

(see the answer key)

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