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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. John Laroche was in a car accident which led to what defect?

2. Where did the park ranger which Susan met in A Green Hell take her?

3. Where did John Laroche grow up?

4. Laroche told Susan that he understood her love of orchids because they bring about a sort of what in people?

5. When was Charles Darwin born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Susan first learn of John Laroche? Where did she go to learn more?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who were Frederick Sander and Benedict Roezl?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was the orchid trade during Victorian times is different than it is today? What dangers existed during that period? Are there dangers in hunting today?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the imagery used in the narrative. How does Orlean describe orchids symbolically and with personality? How does this affect the tone of the narrative?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the American Orchid Society gala which Susan attended. Where did the gala take place? Who was in attendance?

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