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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Kind of Direction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nursery does Robert Fuchs own?
(a) Rob's Orchids.
(b) Robbie's Orchids.
(c) R. F. Orchids.
(d) Fuchs Nurseries.

2. In A Kind of Direction, Laroche took Susan on a hike where?
(a) Alafia River State Park.
(b) Fakahatchee Strand.
(c) Lake Manatee State Park.
(d) St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park.

3. What type of orchid has a stem which grows from a single bud in which leaves are added from the apex each year, and the stem grows longer accordingly?
(a) Tripodial.
(b) Sympodial.
(c) Monopodial.
(d) Autopodial.

4. Where is Denise from in Anyone Can Grow Orchids?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Puerto Rico.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Trinidad.

5. What woman famous in the orchid community for her touch with Ghost Orchids suffered a plant crime when someone mysteriously destroys the pods of some of her orchids?
(a) Susan Zarros.
(b) Savilla Quick.
(c) Wendy Jones.
(d) Diane Williams.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Du Pont founded?

3. What refers to a species of grass in the genus Imperata which is placed in the subfamily Panicoideae, supertribe Andropogonodae, tribe Andropogoneae?

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

5. Susan marveled at Laroche's ability to do what with something obsessed over?

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