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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a species of flowering plant in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to subtropical and tropical South America?

2. One of Tom Fennell's neighbors had bell peppers worth how much money stolen from his fields?

3. What genus of plants were brought to south Florida as an ornamental landscape plant from Australia?

4. How many plants called Elaine were to be dumped at Kerry's Bromeliads?

5. Where did Susan go to hear Martin Motes speak in Plant Crimes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plant smuggler did Susan meet in Barbecued Doves? What did his wife talk about?

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

3. What nursery had the Fennells owned? Why had they closed it?

4. What did Tom Fennell say of Laroche's plan with the Ghost Orchid?

5. Discuss the beginning history of the Fakahatchee Strand described in The Good Life.

6. What about Laroche did Susan marvel about in Fortunes? What did Laroche go on to work with after plants?

7. What is the only way into the Fakahatchee Strand? How was the road built?

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

9. How successful had the plant smuggler from Barbecued Doves been in his high time?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the process of orchid cloning. When did orchid cloning begin? How has it evolved?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life and work of Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward. How did Ward's work change the plant-shipping industry?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Seminole Tribe of Florida. When did they originate and where? How much land do the Seminoles have today?

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