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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 the binomial name of the Ghost Orchid?
(a) Dendrophylax porrectus.
(b) Dendrophylax serpentilingua.
(c) Dendrophylax helorrhiza.
(d) Dendrophylax lindenii.

2. What is the genus of the Ghost Orchid?
(a) Harrisella.
(b) Neobathiea.
(c) Campylocentrum.
(d) Dendrophylax.

3. In Orchid Fever, Susan writes that the international trade in orchids is more than how much per year?
(a) $700 million.
(b) $10 billion.
(c) $2 billion.
(d) $200 million.

4. When was Susan Orlean born?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1955.

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

Short Answer 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?

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

3. What does CITES stand for?

4. 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?

5. What kind of orchid was John Laroche accused of attempting to steal in The Millionaire's Hothouse?

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