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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Robert Fuchs' great-grandfather came across orchids while traveling through what town?
(a) Homestead, Florida.
(b) Boca Raton, Florida.
(c) Palm Beach, Florida.
(d) Kissimmee, Florida.

2. What was the name of Gary Zill's nursery?
(a) Plant Master Orchids.
(b) Zill High Performance Plants.
(c) Gary's Glowing Orchids.
(d) Zill's Best Orchids.

3. Who got into an altercation with Fuchs, accusing him of being favored by the judges and telling the others that Fuchs had tried to bribe him when he was a judge?
(a) Lee Moore.
(b) Frank Smith.
(c) William Spencer Cavendish.
(d) Tom Fennell.

4. At the South Florida Orchid Society in Fortunes, Susan calculated that there were roughly how much money worth of flowers?
(a) $24 million.
(b) $4 million.
(c) $34 million.
(d) $40 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What apes in the family Hylobatidae are often smuggled into Florida?

3. The poisonous South American toad now can grow up to how many pounds?

4. The collector of Ghost Orchids in Plant Crimes had the secret of putting the baby ghost orchids in what kind of tree?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Motes teach Susan about orchid breeding and monopolies?

2. What was the result of many poachers taking plants from swamps in south Florida?

3. What plant smuggler did Susan meet in Barbecued Doves? What did his wife talk about?

4. What is the only way into the Fakahatchee Strand? How was the road built?

5. Discuss the beginning history of the Fakahatchee Strand described in The Good Life.

6. Describe plant poaching in south Florida. What examples does Susan provide in Plant Crimes?

7. What decision did the judge reach in Laroche's case?

8. How successful had the plant smuggler from Barbecued Doves been in his high time?

9. What nursery had the Fennells owned? Why had they closed it?

10. What did the Gulf American Company sell?

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