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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Plant Crimes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Laroche tell Susan he had first gotten into plants and horticulture?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1990.

2. What is the name of the family in which snapping turtles belong?
(a) Solemydidae.
(b) Neurankylidae.
(c) Osteopygis.
(d) Chelydridae.

3. How many species are in the Pleurothallis genus of orchids?
(a) 475.
(b) 200.
(c) 1000.
(d) 70.

4. What is the binomial name of the Ghost Orchid?
(a) Dendrophylax lindenii.
(b) Dendrophylax porrectus.
(c) Dendrophylax helorrhiza.
(d) Dendrophylax serpentilingua.

5. The International Orchid Register now has more than how many different types of orchids in their registry?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 200,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Laroche do with the stolen orchids which didn't die?

2. Robert Fuchs is from a family that has been growing orchids for how many generations?

3. When was William Spencer Cavendish born?

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 does CITES stand for?

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