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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. What refers to an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state, and is legally prohibited?
(a) Judgement.
(b) Crime.
(c) Negligence.
(d) Accident.

2. After Hurricane Andrew hit, Laroche had given up his nursery business forever, saying that he would die of what if he ever opened one up again?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) A broken heart.
(c) Execution.
(d) Drowning.

3. What parts of the Ghost Orchid did Susan and her park ranger friend see in A Green Hell?
(a) Roots.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Pollen.
(d) Leaves.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what strength did Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida?

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

3. Who was put into a coma from the car accident John Laroche had?

4. What is the name of Charles Darwin's work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology?

5. What refers to a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the narrative point of view of the book? What is its tense and voice?

3. What did the judge concur after hearing Laroche at trial in The Millionaire's Hothouse? Where did Laroche take Susan afterward?

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

5. Who were Frederick Sander and Benedict Roezl?

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

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

8. What is special about the pollination of orchids?

9. What knowledge did Laroche reveal while at an orchid show in Gorgeous? What did Susan learn there?

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

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