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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Osceola's Head.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water?
(a) Bog.
(b) Tundra.
(c) Fen.
(d) Swamp.

2. What refers to a species of grass in the genus Imperata which is placed in the subfamily Panicoideae, supertribe Andropogonodae, tribe Andropogoneae?
(a) Kentucky bluegrass.
(b) Fescue.
(c) Ryegrass.
(d) Asian cogon grass.

3. When did the legendary first Sapa Inca, Manco Capac, found the Kingdom of Cuzco?
(a) 1200.
(b) 1250.
(c) 1324.
(d) 1290.

4. Where did Susan Orlean leave to go to Florida in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) Massachusets.
(c) Missouri.
(d) New York.

5. What is the name of Charles Darwin's work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology?
(a) On the Origin of Species.
(b) Chimp and Human Evolution.
(c) My Evolutionary Argument.
(d) We Are All Chimps.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose family had owned the Orchid Jungle before winning the lottery?

3. One of the most notorious plant crimes in Florida occurred when someone stole prize-winning orchids worth how much from the R. F. Orchids shadehouse?

4. To what order does the Ghost Orchid belong?

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

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