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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two - Cloning the Ghost.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What killed most of Larouche's nursery stock after his car accident?
(a) A frost.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) Snow.
(d) Hail.

2. Although it was illegal for Laroche to bring a plant out of the Fakahatchee, it was legal for who to do so?
(a) His wife.
(b) Texans.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) Native Americans.

3. When did the Seminole Wars take place?
(a) 1816-1838.
(b) 1828-1833.
(c) 1822-1856.
(d) 1818-1858.

4. What does CITES stand for?
(a) Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna.
(b) Convention on International Trade in Exotic Species of Cultivated Plants.
(c) Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
(d) Convention on International Trade in Exotic Species of Plants..

5. What refers to any of a class of angiosperm plants having a single cotyledon in the seed?
(a) Monocot.
(b) Eudicot.
(c) Magnoliid.
(d) Austrobaileyale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Susan first read about John Laroche?

2. How did John Laroche find out about the job working for the Seminoles?

3. What did Laroche do at the nursery he took Susan to visit in Cloning the Ghost?

4. John Laroche is introduced as being an eccentric person who is tall, skinny and handsome despite what?

5. When was Du Pont founded?

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