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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. Where did Susan first read about John Laroche?
(a) A short story.
(b) A news article.
(c) A letter from a friend.
(d) A police report.

2. What did John Laroche plan on doing with the orchids he stole in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Clone them.
(b) Press them.
(c) Sell them.
(d) Cultivate them.

3. When did Susan Orlean leave to go to Florida in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

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

5. Alligators have remained largely unchanged for how many years?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 20 million.
(c) 2 billion.
(d) 200 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Orchid Fever, Susan writes that the international trade in orchids is more than how much per year?

2. The scent of the blooming Ghost Orchid is fruity, resembling what?

3. How many acres make up the Fakahatchee Strand?

4. Studies at what university encouraged Charles Darwin's passion for natural science?

5. When was John Laroche born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is special about the pollination of orchids?

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

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

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

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

6. Who were Frederick Sander and Benedict Roezl?

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

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

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

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

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