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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Studies at what university encouraged Charles Darwin's passion for natural science?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) University of Cambridge.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Oxford University.

2. Most Seminoles speak what language?
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Ojibwe.
(c) Mikasuki.
(d) Chippewa.

3. What event had John Laroche attended which got him into plants and horticulture?
(a) The World Bromeliad Show.
(b) The World Edmundoa Show.
(c) The World Orthophytum Show.
(d) The World Connellia Show.

4. Where did the park ranger which Susan met in A Green Hell take her?
(a) Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park.
(b) Falling Waters State Park.
(c) Amelia Island State Park.
(d) Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many species are in the Bulbophyllum genus of orchids?

2. Who was killed in the car accident John Laroche experienced?

3. What German tireless collector is the reason why Frederick Sander became so influential in the orchid community?

4. What publication about orchids did Frederick Sander publish?

5. When was Susan Orlean born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What demolished the remainder of Laroche's nursery before he worked for the Seminoles?

3. What did John Laroche reveal about his love of orchids in The Millionaire's Hothouse?

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

5. How many species of orchids are there? How are they named?

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

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

8. Where did Laroche take Susan in Gorgeous?

9. Who were Frederick Sander and Benedict Roezl?

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

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