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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. When was Charles Darwin born?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1809.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1818.

2. What doctor separated Osceola's head from his body?
(a) Dr. Woolmont.
(b) Dr. Weedon.
(c) Dr. Williams.
(d) Dr. Windsor.

3. Orchids are considered the most _____ flowering plants on earth.
(a) Evolved.
(b) Primitive.
(c) Rare.
(d) Beautiful.

4. Robert Fuchs is from a family that has been growing orchids for how many generations?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

5. One of Tom Fennell's neighbors had bell peppers worth how much money stolen from his fields?
(a) $20,000.
(b) $12,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $35,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. The circuit judge in Laroche's case fined the Seminole Indians how much each?

2. Where was Osceola tricked and trapped on New Year's Day?

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

4. When was Susan Orlean born?

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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