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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 snake is also known as the water moccasin, swamp moccasin or black moccasin?
(a) Copperhead.
(b) Cottonmouth.
(c) Banded Water Snake.
(d) Scarlet Kingsnake.

2. 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) Hope.
(d) Love sickness.

3. Of what profession was Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward?
(a) Ship Captain.
(b) Surgeon.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Pilot.

4. What is the largest genus in the orchid family Orchidaceae?
(a) Maxillarieae.
(b) Nervilieae.
(c) Bulbophyllum.
(d) Cymbidieae.

5. What publication about orchids did Frederick Sander publish?
(a) Reichenbachia.
(b) Orchidarenisus.
(c) Classifications of Orchids.
(d) The Orchid Diaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alligators have remained largely unchanged for how many years?

2. What refers to a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water?

3. Who was put into a coma from the car accident John Laroche had?

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

5. When was William Spencer Cavendish born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who took Susan into the Fakahatchee Strand in A Green Hell? What was he like?

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

8. Where did Laroche take Susan in Gorgeous?

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

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

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