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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. When was William Spencer Cavendish born?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1790.

2. What is the name of Charles Darwin's work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology?
(a) Chimp and Human Evolution.
(b) My Evolutionary Argument.
(c) We Are All Chimps.
(d) On the Origin of Species.

3. When does the Ghost Orchid blossom?
(a) Between May and September.
(b) Between June and August.
(c) Between December and April.
(d) Between May and August.

4. Where did John Laroche grow up?
(a) South Miami.
(b) East Tampa.
(c) Downtown Tampa.
(d) North Miami.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What snake is also known as the water moccasin, swamp moccasin or black moccasin?

2. When was Charles Darwin born?

3. 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?

4. When did Laroche tell Susan he had first gotten into plants and horticulture?

5. Pollination of the Ghost Orchid is done by what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What are John Laroche's most striking qualities? How is he introduced in the narrative?

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

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

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

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

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