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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 species are in the Bulbophyllum genus of orchids?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 2,000.

2. What parts of the Ghost Orchid did Susan and her park ranger friend see in A Green Hell?
(a) Roots.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Pollen.
(d) Leaves.

3. When was Susan Orlean born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1951.

4. When was Frederick Sander born?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1835.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although it was illegal for Laroche to bring a plant out of the Fakahatchee, it was legal for who to do so?

2. What refers to a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales?

3. How many species are in the Epidendrum genus of orchids?

4. How many acres make up the Fakahatchee Strand?

5. When did the Seminole Wars take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Susan learn about the cloning of orchids in Gorgeous?

4. Where did Susan arrive to watch Laroche's trial? What did he reveal of his plans?

5. What scene did Laroche cause at a friend's nursery in Cloning the Ghost?

6. What is special about the pollination of orchids?

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

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

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

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

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