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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Osceola tricked and trapped on New Year's Day?
(a) Charleston, South Carolina.
(b) Durham, North Carolina.
(c) Forth Moultrie, South Carolina.
(d) Charlotte, North Carolina.

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

3. What is a term for any one of a large number of unrelated small to medium sized species of parrot, that generally have long tail feathers?
(a) Macaw.
(b) Merganser.
(c) Parakeet.
(d) Cockatoo.

4. Who took Susan for a hike along with two inmates from a work-release program of the Copeland Road Prison?
(a) Katherine.
(b) Rebecca.
(c) Annette.
(d) Jennifer.

5. What genus of plants were brought to south Florida as an ornamental landscape plant from Australia?
(a) Croomia.
(b) Melaleuca.
(c) Stemona.
(d) Pentastemona.

6. Susan marveled at Laroche's ability to do what with something obsessed over?
(a) Hate it.
(b) Admire it.
(c) Abandon it.
(d) Ignore it.

7. 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) Wendy Jones.
(b) Diane Williams.
(c) Savilla Quick.
(d) Susan Zarros.

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

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

10. Who discovered the last species of Cattleya that would be discovered?
(a) Robert Fuchs.
(b) Lee Moore.
(c) John Lindley.
(d) Frank Smith.

11. One of the most notorious plant crimes in Florida occurred when someone stole prize-winning orchids worth how much from the R. F. Orchids shadehouse?
(a) $250,000.
(b) $500,000.
(c) $658,000.
(d) $150,000.

12. Whose family had owned the Orchid Jungle before winning the lottery?
(a) Tom Fennell's.
(b) Robert Callahan's.
(c) John McMurphy's.
(d) Francis Harrold's.

13. What company had begun logging the Fakahatchee Strand for cypress trees in the 1950s?
(a) John Smith Swamp Logging.
(b) The Lee Tidewater Cypress Company.
(c) Jones Forestry Inc.
(d) Steven's Timber Company.

14. 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?
(a) The Southeast Orchid Society Show.
(b) The North Florida Orchid Society Show.
(c) The Central Florida Orchid Society Show.
(d) The South Florida Orchid Society Show.

15. When did Robert Fuchs begin growing orchids professionally?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1985.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a semi-aquatic tropical plant grown as a leaf vegetable also known as "swamp cabbage"?

2. What refers an immersed aquatic plant which originated in South America but has spread to many parts of the world and is considered an invasive species in Australia, China, New Zealand, Thailand and the United States?

3. What was the name of Robert Fuchs' great-grandfather?

4. What monkeys are the genus Lagothrix of New World monkeys, usually placed in the family Atelidae?

5. When was Osceola born?

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