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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Laroche attempt to use to get in for free at the orchid show in Gorgeous?
(a) Susan's press pass.
(b) A fake student identification card.
(c) An expired coupon.
(d) Orchid seedlings.

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

5. The first orchid to bloom in England was not collected by a professional hunter, but brought back by whom?
(a) A Quaker cloth merchant.
(b) A Catholic preist.
(c) A Buddhist Monk.
(d) A doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many genera are there in the orchid family?

2. What parts of the Ghost Orchid did Susan and her park ranger friend see in A Green Hell?

3. What refers to a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water?

4. Where did Laroche invite Susan to an orchid show in Gorgeous?

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

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