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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. One of the most notorious plant crimes in Florida happened in what year, according to the author in Plant Crimes?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1992.

2. When did Frederick Sander meet Benedict Roezl?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1875.

3. What publication about orchids did Frederick Sander publish?
(a) Reichenbachia.
(b) The Orchid Diaries.
(c) Classifications of Orchids.
(d) Orchidarenisus.

4. What type of orchid produces a series of adjacent shoots which grow to a certain size, bloom and then stop growing, to be then replaced?
(a) Monopodial.
(b) Autopodial.
(c) Sympodial.
(d) Tripodial.

5. What refers to a species of flowering plant in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to subtropical and tropical South America?
(a) Brazilian pepper tree.
(b) Blue Dawn flower.
(c) Amazon lily.
(d) Flame of the Forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Susan first read about John Laroche?

2. When was John Laroche born?

3. What word refers to the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image or desire?

4. Where did Susan meet nearly every other orchid grower she had met in Florida, including Martin Motes, Tom Fennell, Bob Fuchs, Frank Smith in Fortunes?

5. What is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix?

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