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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Mortal Occupation.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of pollination do orchids undergo?
(a) They do not pollinate.
(b) Self-pollination.
(c) Cross-pollination.
(d) Auto-polination.

3. When did Hurricane Andrew hit the U.S. coast?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1993.

4. Pollination of the Ghost Orchid is done by what?
(a) The swamp hummingbird.
(b) The giant orchid spider.
(c) The Florida jumping beetle.
(d) The giant sphinx moth.

5. What did Laroche do at the nursery he took Susan to visit in Cloning the Ghost?
(a) Burned all the plants.
(b) Drowned the plants.
(c) Took back some plants.
(d) Sold some orchids.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John Laroche grow up?

2. What refers to a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales?

3. 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?

4. Where did Susan attend an orchid show with Laroche in Cloning the Ghost?

5. Of what profession was Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward?

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