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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. How many acres make up the Fakahatchee Strand?
(a) 143,775.
(b) 24,000.
(c) 63,000.
(d) 36,450.

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

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

4. How did John Laroche find out about the job working for the Seminoles?
(a) Television commercial.
(b) Through his brother.
(c) Newspaper ad.
(d) Craigslist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the genus of the Ghost Orchid?

2. Of what profession was Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward?

3. At what strength did Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida?

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

5. John Laroche is introduced as being an eccentric person who is tall, skinny and handsome despite what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What events happened to John Laroche before he began working for the Seminoles?

2. When was the first orchid bloomed in England? Who began the collecting craze?

3. What is special about the pollination of orchids?

4. What did the judge concur after hearing Laroche at trial in The Millionaire's Hothouse? Where did Laroche take Susan afterward?

5. Where did Susan go after the orchid show in Miami in Cloning the Ghost?

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

7. Who were Frederick Sander and Benedict Roezl?

8. What did Susan think of Laroche after the orchid show in Gorgeous? What did he ask her?

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

10. What knowledge did Laroche reveal while at an orchid show in Gorgeous? What did Susan learn there?

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