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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Seminole tribe were looking for someone to start a nursery because they owned how much land in Florida?
(a) Millions of acres.
(b) 100 acres.
(c) Hundreds of acres.
(d) Thousands of acres.

2. What killed most of Larouche's nursery stock after his car accident?
(a) Hail.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) Snow.
(d) A frost.

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?
(a) Morphology.
(b) Synapomorphy.
(c) Biomorph.
(d) Symbiosis.

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

5. Alligators have remained largely unchanged for how many years?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 2 million.
(c) 2 billion.
(d) 200 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what strength did Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida?

2. To what order does the Ghost Orchid belong?

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

4. When did Susan Orlean leave to go to Florida in The Millionaire's Hothouse?

5. Where did John Laroche grow up?

(see the answer key)

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