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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What refers to an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state, and is legally prohibited?
(a) Judgement.
(b) Accident.
(c) Negligence.
(d) Crime.

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

5. When did Susan Orlean leave to go to Florida in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

6. What is the binomial name of the Ghost Orchid?
(a) Dendrophylax porrectus.
(b) Dendrophylax lindenii.
(c) Dendrophylax serpentilingua.
(d) Dendrophylax helorrhiza.

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

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

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

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

11. How many species are in the Pleurothallis genus of orchids?
(a) 475.
(b) 200.
(c) 1000.
(d) 70.

12. Where did John Laroche grow up?
(a) Downtown Tampa.
(b) North Miami.
(c) South Miami.
(d) East Tampa.

13. When was Du Pont founded?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1802.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the Ghost Orchid blossom?

2. Where did Susan Orlean leave to go to Florida in The Millionaire's Hothouse?

3. Studies at what university encouraged Charles Darwin's passion for natural science?

4. When was Charles Darwin born?

5. What killed most of Larouche's nursery stock after his car accident?

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