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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 was the name of Gary Zill's nursery?
(a) Zill's Best Orchids.
(b) Zill High Performance Plants.
(c) Gary's Glowing Orchids.
(d) Plant Master Orchids.

2. When was Osceola born?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1788.

3. What is the only way to reach the Fakahatchee Strand?
(a) Naples Park Nature Trail.
(b) The Appalachian Trail.
(c) Wekiwa Springs Loop Trail.
(d) The Tamiami Trail.

4. At the South Florida Orchid Society in Fortunes, Susan calculated that there were roughly how much money worth of flowers?
(a) $4 million.
(b) $34 million.
(c) $40 million.
(d) $24 million.

5. How many square feet of greenhouse makes up Kerry's Bromeliads?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 329,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a term for any one of a large number of unrelated small to medium sized species of parrot, that generally have long tail feathers?

3. One of the most notorious plant crimes in Florida occurred when someone stole prize-winning orchids worth how much from the R. F. Orchids shadehouse?

4. What is a semi-aquatic tropical plant grown as a leaf vegetable also known as "swamp cabbage"?

5. What monkeys are the genus Lagothrix of New World monkeys, usually placed in the family Atelidae?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Laroche do with the stolen orchids? What is revealed of them in The Good Life?

2. What is the history of the origin of the Seminole Indians? When had they largely moved from Florida?

3. What does CITES stand for? What conflict do people have about CITES' regulations?

4. Describe plant poaching in south Florida. What examples does Susan provide in Plant Crimes?

5. What was the result of many poachers taking plants from swamps in south Florida?

6. What decision did the judge reach in Laroche's case?

7. What did Susan envy about the orchid growers and collectors in Fortunes?

8. Describe Robert Fuchs' family. When had they begun in the orchid business?

9. Where did Susan go to hear Martin Motes speak? Who did she meet there?

10. Who was Osceola?

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