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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was John Laroche born?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Florida.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) South Carolina.

2. Where did Laroche invite Susan to an orchid show in Gorgeous?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Tallahassee.
(c) Fort Lauderdale.
(d) Miami.

3. When did Charles Darwin publish Fertilization of Orchids?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1868.

4. Where did Susan first read about John Laroche?
(a) A letter from a friend.
(b) A police report.
(c) A short story.
(d) A news article.

5. Of what profession was Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward?
(a) Pilot.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Surgeon.
(d) Ship Captain.

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

7. According to Laroche, there is a lot of what to be made in the plant world?
(a) Money.
(b) Fame.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Progress.

8. What park ranger did Susan meet in A Green Hell?
(a) Tony.
(b) Troy.
(c) Mike.
(d) Mark.

9. 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) Azaconazole.
(b) Benomyl.
(c) Diclomezine.
(d) Orysastrobin.

10. Studies at what university encouraged Charles Darwin's passion for natural science?
(a) Oxford University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) University of Cambridge.
(d) Rutgers University.

11. Orchids from seeds take a long time because many of the plants rarely form what?
(a) Roots.
(b) Cotyledons.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Seed pods.

12. When was Susan Orlean born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1951.

13. What did John Laroche plan on doing with the orchids he stole in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Clone them.
(b) Cultivate them.
(c) Press them.
(d) Sell them.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image or desire?

2. When was John Laroche born?

3. When did Laroche tell Susan he had first gotten into plants and horticulture?

4. Pollination of the Ghost Orchid is done by what?

5. 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?

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