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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a venomous pit viper species found in the southeastern United States which is the heaviest (though not longest) venomous snake in the Americas and the largest rattlesnake?
(a) Pacific Rattlesnake.
(b) Sidewinder.
(c) Rock Rattlesnake.
(d) Diamondback Rattlesnake.

2. When did Laroche tell Susan he had first gotten into plants and horticulture?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1983.

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

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

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

6. How many species are in the Dendrobium genus of orchids?
(a) 1200.
(b) 825.
(c) 245.
(d) 657.

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

8. What snake is also known as the water moccasin, swamp moccasin or black moccasin?
(a) Copperhead.
(b) Banded Water Snake.
(c) Scarlet Kingsnake.
(d) Cottonmouth.

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

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

11. 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 Quaker cloth merchant.
(d) A doctor.

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

13. Orchids are considered the most _____ flowering plants on earth.
(a) Rare.
(b) Primitive.
(c) Evolved.
(d) Beautiful.

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

15. To what order does the Ghost Orchid belong?
(a) Asparagales.
(b) Pandanales.
(c) Alismatales.
(d) Petrosaviales.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hurricane Andrew hit the U.S. coast?

2. 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?

3. What kind of pollination do orchids undergo?

4. Where was John Laroche born?

5. Where did Susan witness John Laroche's trial in The Millionaire's Hothouse?

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