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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales?
(a) Orchidaceae.
(b) Iridaceae.
(c) Boryaceae.
(d) Asteliaceae.

3. Where was John Laroche born?
(a) Georgia.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Florida.

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

5. How long does it take to determine whether cloning was effective in orchids?
(a) 6 weeks.
(b) 2 months
(c) 75 days.
(d) 7 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One of the most notorious plant crimes in Florida happened in what year, according to the author in Plant Crimes?

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

4. When did Susan Orlean leave to go to Florida in The Millionaire's Hothouse?

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

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