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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did John Laroche find out about the job working for the Seminoles?
(a) Television commercial.
(b) Through his brother.
(c) Newspaper ad.
(d) Craigslist.

2. What snake is also known as the water moccasin, swamp moccasin or black moccasin?
(a) Scarlet Kingsnake.
(b) Cottonmouth.
(c) Copperhead.
(d) Banded Water Snake.

3. What refers to a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water?
(a) Swamp.
(b) Fen.
(c) Tundra.
(d) Bog.

4. When did Susan Orlean leave to go to Florida in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Spring.
(b) Fall.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

5. How many genera are there in the orchid family?
(a) 880.
(b) 129.
(c) 650.
(d) 975.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most Seminoles speak what language?

2. What refers to an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state, and is legally prohibited?

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

4. What did Laroche do at the nursery he took Susan to visit in Cloning the Ghost?

5. When did Charles Darwin publish Fertilization of Orchids?

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