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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales?
(a) Asteliaceae.
(b) Iridaceae.
(c) Boryaceae.
(d) Orchidaceae.

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

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

5. What German tireless collector is the reason why Frederick Sander became so influential in the orchid community?
(a) Benedict Roezl.
(b) Albert Millican.
(c) William Micholitz.
(d) Tom Hart Dyke.

6. The Seminole tribe were looking for someone to start a nursery because they owned how much land in Florida?
(a) Millions of acres.
(b) Hundreds of acres.
(c) Thousands of acres.
(d) 100 acres.

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

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

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

10. John Laroche claimed of his family that the Laroches were a family of what?
(a) Ailments and pain.
(b) Wealth and stature.
(c) Agruments and opinions.
(d) Fun and joy.

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

12. How long does it take to determine whether cloning was effective in orchids?
(a) 7 years.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 75 days.
(d) 2 months

13. Where did Susan attend an orchid show with Laroche in Cloning the Ghost?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Tampa.
(c) Key West.
(d) Miami.

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

15. Where was William Spencer Cavendish born?
(a) London, England.
(b) Moscow, Russia.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Warsaw, Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What snake is also known as the water moccasin, swamp moccasin or black moccasin?

2. Who was killed in the car accident John Laroche experienced?

3. When did the Seminole Wars take place?

4. What is the name of Charles Darwin's work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology?

5. What is the genus of the Ghost Orchid?

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