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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) William Micholitz.
(b) Albert Millican.
(c) Tom Hart Dyke.
(d) Benedict Roezl.

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

3. Pollination of the Ghost Orchid is done by what?
(a) The swamp hummingbird.
(b) The giant sphinx moth.
(c) The Florida jumping beetle.
(d) The giant orchid spider.

4. What kind of pollination do orchids undergo?
(a) Self-pollination.
(b) Cross-pollination.
(c) Auto-polination.
(d) They do not pollinate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many species are in the Dendrobium genus of orchids?

2. How many genera are there in the orchid family?

3. What did Laroche attempt to use to get in for free at the orchid show in Gorgeous?

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

5. How many acres make up the Fakahatchee Strand?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrative point of view of the book? What is its tense and voice?

2. Describe the Seminole Indians. Where do they live?

3. What legal loophole did Laroche hope to employ in taking the Ghost Orchids?

4. Where did Susan first learn of John Laroche? Where did she go to learn more?

5. How big is the Fakahatchee Strand? What plants and animals live there?

6. Why did the park ranger tell Susan he believes people strive to see the Ghost Orchid?

7. Why had Laroche chosen orchids for cultivation? What did he begin with?

8. Where had John Laroche first been inspired to grow plants?

9. What does an orchid do when pollinating? What are orchids' habitat?

10. How many species of orchids are there? How are they named?

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