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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Although it was illegal for Laroche to bring a plant out of the Fakahatchee, it was legal for who to do so?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Texans.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) His wife.

2. Hollywood, Florida is just south of what city?
(a) Palm Bay.
(b) Miami.
(c) Fort Lauderdale.
(d) Orlando.

3. What type of orchid has a stem which grows from a single bud in which leaves are added from the apex each year, and the stem grows longer accordingly?
(a) Monopodial.
(b) Autopodial.
(c) Tripodial.
(d) Sympodial.

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

5. Where did the park ranger which Susan met in A Green Hell take her?
(a) Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park.
(b) Falling Waters State Park.
(c) Amelia Island State Park.
(d) Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park.

6. Most Seminoles speak what language?
(a) Mikasuki.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) Ojibwe.
(d) Chippewa.

7. What did Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward put into a jar and then forget about it?
(a) A caterpillar.
(b) A firefly.
(c) A moth.
(d) A mouse.

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

9. What parts of the Ghost Orchid did Susan and her park ranger friend see in A Green Hell?
(a) Pollen.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Roots.

10. The International Orchid Register now has more than how many different types of orchids in their registry?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 200,000.

11. Where was Susan Orlean born?
(a) Cleveland, Ohio.
(b) Detroit, Michigan.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Buffalo, New York.

12. What refers to any of a class of angiosperm plants having a single cotyledon in the seed?
(a) Austrobaileyale.
(b) Magnoliid.
(c) Eudicot.
(d) Monocot.

13. What is the name of the family in which snapping turtles belong?
(a) Solemydidae.
(b) Chelydridae.
(c) Neurankylidae.
(d) Osteopygis.

14. 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) Diclomezine.
(c) Azaconazole.
(d) Orysastrobin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a trait that is shared by two or more taxa and their most recent common ancestor, whose ancestor in turn does not possess the trait?

2. What is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis, or cone scale?

3. What event had John Laroche attended which got him into plants and horticulture?

4. Where was William Spencer Cavendish born?

5. What park ranger did Susan meet in A Green Hell?

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