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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Kind of Direction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was John Laroche born?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1956.

2. What did John Laroche plan on doing with the orchids he stole in The Millionaire's Hothouse?
(a) Cultivate them.
(b) Sell them.
(c) Press them.
(d) Clone them.

3. What type of orchid produces a series of adjacent shoots which grow to a certain size, bloom and then stop growing, to be then replaced?
(a) Autopodial.
(b) Monopodial.
(c) Tripodial.
(d) Sympodial.

4. The collector of Ghost Orchids in Plant Crimes had the secret of putting the baby ghost orchids in what kind of tree?
(a) Mango.
(b) Orange.
(c) Cypress.
(d) Plum.

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 Wild Fauna and Flora.
(c) Convention on International Trade in Exotic Species of Cultivated Plants.
(d) Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Hurricane Andrew hit the U.S. coast?

3. How many species are in the Dendrobium genus of orchids?

4. John Laroche claimed of his family that the Laroches were a family of what?

5. Robert Fuchs' great-grandfather moved his family from where to Florida?

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