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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kerry's Bromeliads houses how many bromeliads?
(a) 1.4 million.
(b) 2.2 million.
(c) 850,000.
(d) 450,000.

2. What did Laroche do at the nursery he took Susan to visit in Cloning the Ghost?
(a) Drowned the plants.
(b) Burned all the plants.
(c) Sold some orchids.
(d) Took back some plants.

3. How many acres make up the Fakahatchee Strand?
(a) 36,450.
(b) 24,000.
(c) 143,775.
(d) 63,000.

4. After Hurricane Andrew hit, Laroche had given up his nursery business forever, saying that he would die of what if he ever opened one up again?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) A broken heart.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Execution.

5. John Laroche is introduced as being an eccentric person who is tall, skinny and handsome despite what?
(a) Missing his front teeth.
(b) Missing eight fingers.
(c) Missing his left arm.
(d) Missing an ear.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did William Spencer Cavendish begin collecting orchids?

2. What refers to a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales?

3. Where did Susan first read about John Laroche?

4. What periodical had run an article about the Orchid Jungle, leading to its becoming a tourist attraction?

5. Who took Susan for a hike along with two inmates from a work-release program of the Copeland Road Prison?

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