1. Susan Orlean has been a staff writer for what periodical since 1992?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Time Magazine.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Rolling Stone.

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

3. Where is Denise from in Anyone Can Grow Orchids?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Trinidad.
(d) Puerto Rico.

4. From what university did Susan Orlean graduate?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) The University of Indiana.
(c) The University of Michigan.
(d) The University of Kentucky.

5. What genus of plants were brought to south Florida as an ornamental landscape plant from Australia?
(a) Croomia.
(b) Melaleuca.
(c) Pentastemona.
(d) Stemona.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the most notorious plant crimes in Florida occurred when someone stole prize-winning orchids worth how much from the R. F. Orchids shadehouse?

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

3. Kerry's Bromeliads houses how many bromeliads?

4. After Hurricane Andrew hit, Laroche had given up his nursery business forever, saying that he would die of what if he ever opened one up again?

5. What publication about orchids did Frederick Sander publish?

(see the answer key)

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