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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 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?

2. What kind of pollination do orchids undergo?

3. Where was William Spencer Cavendish born?

4. What refers to any of a class of angiosperm plants having a single cotyledon in the seed?

5. What park ranger did Susan meet in A Green Hell?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When was the first orchid bloomed in England? Who began the collecting craze?

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

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

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

7. How had Laroche gone about building a nursery for the Seminoles?

8. Who were Frederick Sander and Benedict Roezl?

9. What legal loophole did Laroche hope to employ in taking the Ghost Orchids?

10. What did Susan think of Laroche after the orchid show in Gorgeous? What did he ask her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the process of orchid cloning. When did orchid cloning begin? How has it evolved?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the world of contemporary plant and orchid collecting. How many orchid collectors are there today? Has this changed considerably?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the biology and history of the Ghost Orchid. How many Ghost Orchids are found in nurseries today?

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