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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. The first orchid to bloom in England was not collected by a professional hunter, but brought back by whom?
(a) A Buddhist Monk.
(b) A Catholic preist.
(c) A Quaker cloth merchant.
(d) A doctor.

2. John Laroche claimed his plan was to teach the Seminoles everything he knows about what?
(a) Nature.
(b) The swamp.
(c) Cypress trees.
(d) Botany.

3. Where was John Laroche accused of stealing orchids from in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Fakahatchee Strand.
(b) Bauxahatchee Preserve.
(c) Trilahasee Marsh.
(d) Stevenson Bog.

4. John Laroche claimed of his family that the Laroches were a family of what?
(a) Fun and joy.
(b) Ailments and pain.
(c) Wealth and stature.
(d) Agruments and opinions.

5. In Orchid Fever, Susan writes that the international trade in orchids is more than how much per year?
(a) $200 million.
(b) $10 billion.
(c) $700 million.
(d) $2 billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Susan attend an orchid show with Laroche in Cloning the Ghost?

2. What type of orchid produces a series of adjacent shoots which grow to a certain size, bloom and then stop growing, to be then replaced?

3. What did John Laroche plan on doing with the orchids he stole in The Millionaire's Hothouse?

4. 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?

5. Where did Susan first read about John Laroche?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did John Laroche reveal about his love of orchids in The Millionaire's Hothouse?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is special about the pollination of orchids?

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

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