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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. Where was Benedict Roezl from?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Spain.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) Poland.

2. 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) Crime.
(b) Judgement.
(c) Negligence.
(d) Accident.

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

4. According to Laroche, there is a lot of what to be made in the plant world?
(a) Fame.
(b) Money.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Progress.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of orchid has a stem which grows from a single bud in which leaves are added from the apex each year, and the stem grows longer accordingly?

2. The scent of the blooming Ghost Orchid is fruity, resembling what?

3. When does the Ghost Orchid blossom?

4. What is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis, or cone scale?

5. How many species are in the Epidendrum genus of orchids?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Susan remark about the power of orchids on people in Orchid Fever?

3. Why had Laroche chosen orchids for cultivation? What did he begin with?

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

5. How had Laroche gone about building a nursery for the Seminoles?

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

7. Describe the Seminole Indians. Where do they live?

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

9. Where did Laroche take Susan in Gorgeous?

10. Why did Susan decide to go into the Fakahatchee Strand in A Green Hell? How did she feel entering it?

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