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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. John Laroche is introduced as being an eccentric person who is tall, skinny and handsome despite what?
(a) Missing his left arm.
(b) Missing an ear.
(c) Missing his front teeth.
(d) Missing eight fingers.

3. How many species are in the Bulbophyllum genus of orchids?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 2,500.

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

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

6. At what strength did Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida?
(a) Category 4.
(b) Category 1.
(c) Category 3.
(d) Category 5.

7. There are over how many known species of orchids?
(a) 42,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 90,000.
(d) 35,000.

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

9. What publication about orchids did Frederick Sander publish?
(a) Orchidarenisus.
(b) Classifications of Orchids.
(c) The Orchid Diaries.
(d) Reichenbachia.

10. 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 broken heart.
(c) Drowning.
(d) A heart attack.

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

12. How many species are in the Epidendrum genus of orchids?
(a) 357.
(b) 1100.
(c) 355.
(d) 1875.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what profession was Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward?

2. When did William Spencer Cavendish begin collecting orchids?

3. What orchid hunter sent a telegram saying that the ship he was on had caught fire and was lost, yet Frederick Sander insisted he move on?

4. Although it was illegal for Laroche to bring a plant out of the Fakahatchee, it was legal for who to do so?

5. Where did the park ranger which Susan met in A Green Hell take her?

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