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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Green Hell.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Sheath.
(b) Bract.
(c) Frond.
(d) Lamina.

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

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

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

5. What kind of orchid was John Laroche accused of attempting to steal in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Poltergeist Orchid.
(b) Ghost Orchid.
(c) Vampire Orchid.
(d) Gremlin Orchid.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hurricane Andrew hit the U.S. coast?

2. What is a venomous pit viper species found in the southeastern United States which is the heaviest (though not longest) venomous snake in the Americas and the largest rattlesnake?

3. When did the Seminole Wars take place?

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

5. Where did Susan first read about John Laroche?

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