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

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

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

4. Laroche told Susan that he understood her love of orchids because they bring about a sort of what in people?
(a) Longing.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Love sickness.
(d) Hope.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Susan Orlean born?

2. What refers to a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived?

3. Where was John Laroche accused of stealing orchids from in The Millionaire's Hothouse?

4. When did William Spencer Cavendish begin collecting orchids?

5. What does CITES stand for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was William Micholitz? What story is related of him?

4. Where did Laroche take Susan in Gorgeous?

5. Describe orchid hunting. When did this activity begin?

6. What demolished the remainder of Laroche's nursery before he worked for the Seminoles?

7. What does Susan remark about the power of orchids on people in Orchid Fever?

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

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

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

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