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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the binomial name of the Ghost Orchid?
2. What type of orchid has a stem which grows from a single bud in which leaves are added from the apex each year, and the stem grows longer accordingly?
3. What is the name of the family in which snapping turtles belong?
4. What is a venomous pit viper species found in the southeastern United States which is the heaviest (though not longest) venomous snake in the Americas and the largest rattlesnake?
5. Although it was illegal for Laroche to bring a plant out of the Fakahatchee, it was legal for who to do so?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where did Susan first learn of John Laroche? Where did she go to learn more?
2. How big is the Fakahatchee Strand? What plants and animals live there?
3. What knowledge did Laroche reveal while at an orchid show in Gorgeous? What did Susan learn there?
4. What demolished the remainder of Laroche's nursery before he worked for the Seminoles?
5. How many species of orchids are there? How are they named?
6. What is the narrative point of view of the book? What is its tense and voice?
7. Why were the Seminoles looking for someone to start a nursery?
8. Where had John Laroche first been inspired to grow plants?
9. Who was William Micholitz? What story is related of him?
10. Where did Susan arrive to watch Laroche's trial? What did he reveal of his plans?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the Seminole Tribe of Florida. When did they originate and where? How much land do the Seminoles have today?
Essay Topic 2
Define and identify the narrative point of view of the narrative. From whose perspective is "The Orchid Thief" written? In what tense?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the role that the Ghost Orchid plays in the plot of Orlean's narrative. How does the elusive Ghost Orchid drive the author and narrator in her quest?
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