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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Frederick Sander meet Benedict Roezl?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1871.

3. 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.

4. When did the Seminole Wars take place?
(a) 1818-1858.
(b) 1828-1833.
(c) 1816-1838.
(d) 1822-1856.

5. How many species are in the Dendrobium genus of orchids?
(a) 657.
(b) 245.
(c) 825.
(d) 1200.

6. Laroche told Susan that he understood her love of orchids because they bring about a sort of what in people?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Hope.
(c) Longing.
(d) Love sickness.

7. 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?
(a) Execution.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) Drowning.
(d) A broken heart.

8. What is the name of Charles Darwin's work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology?
(a) My Evolutionary Argument.
(b) On the Origin of Species.
(c) We Are All Chimps.
(d) Chimp and Human Evolution.

9. When was William Spencer Cavendish born?
(a) 1790.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1799.

10. What word refers to the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image or desire?
(a) Obsession.
(b) Erratic.
(c) Fondness.
(d) Impulsive.

11. What refers to a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water?
(a) Bog.
(b) Swamp.
(c) Fen.
(d) Tundra.

12. What is a fungicide which was introduced in 1968 by DuPont and is a systemic benzimidazole fungicide that is selectively toxic to microorganisms and to invertebrates, especially earthworms?
(a) Benomyl.
(b) Orysastrobin.
(c) Diclomezine.
(d) Azaconazole.

13. Where was Benedict Roezl from?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Spain.
(c) Poland.
(d) Czechoslovakia.

14. How many genera are there in the orchid family?
(a) 650.
(b) 975.
(c) 129.
(d) 880.

15. 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) Lamina.
(c) Bract.
(d) Frond.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to any of a class of angiosperm plants having a single cotyledon in the seed?

2. The Fakahatchee Strand is 25 miles south of where?

3. What type of orchid produces a series of adjacent shoots which grow to a certain size, bloom and then stop growing, to be then replaced?

4. There are over how many known species of orchids?

5. What refers to a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived?

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