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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. The Florida Seminoles are descendants of the Yuchi, Creek and what tribe?

2. What was the name of Robert Fuchs' great-grandfather?

3. Where was Osceola born?

4. How many greenhouses in the Orchid Jungle were destroyed by Hurricane Andrew?

5. In what neighborhood of Miami does Lee Moore live?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What giant nursery did Tom Fennell take Susan to? What did they see there?

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

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

5. Who did Martin Motes take Susan to meet in Fortunes? What was Susan's impression?

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

7. Who had traveled to Washington D. C. on horseback to repeal a law amongst the Seminoles?

8. What did the Gulf American Company sell?

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

10. What orchid show did Susan attend in Fortunes? Who did she see there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the figure of John Laroche. When was Laroche's trial in Florida? How old is Laroche?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Describe Frederick Sander, Benedict Roezl and William Micholitz and orchid hunting in the Victorian era. What defined the Victorian era?

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