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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. How much did the circuit judge fine Laroche in his case?
(a) $5,500.
(b) $1,000.
(c) $500.
(d) $250.
2. What apes in the family Hylobatidae are often smuggled into Florida?
(a) Macaques.
(b) Gorillas.
(c) Gibbons.
(d) Chimpanzees.
3. Whose family had owned the Orchid Jungle before winning the lottery?
(a) John McMurphy's.
(b) Francis Harrold's.
(c) Tom Fennell's.
(d) Robert Callahan's.
4. The owners of the Orchid Jungle won how much money in the Florida state lottery?
(a) 2.48 million.
(b) 6.76 million.
(c) 56 million.
(d) 124 million.
5. One of Tom Fennell's neighbors had bell peppers worth how much money stolen from his fields?
(a) $12,000.
(b) $35,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $20,000.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Lee Moore's profession, according to CITES and the US Government?
2. What is a tree native to Puebla, Mexico and classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae along with cinnamon, camphor and bay laurel?
3. What is the only way to reach the Fakahatchee Strand?
4. When was the Cattleya Orchid named?
5. What genus of plants were brought to south Florida as an ornamental landscape plant from Australia?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Laroche do with the stolen orchids? What is revealed of them in The Good Life?
2. Who had traveled to Washington D. C. on horseback to repeal a law amongst the Seminoles?
3. What are examples of things smuggled into Florida?
4. Discuss the beginning history of the Fakahatchee Strand described in The Good Life.
5. What about Laroche did Susan marvel about in Fortunes? What did Laroche go on to work with after plants?
6. What did Motes teach Susan about orchid breeding and monopolies?
7. What did Susan envy about the orchid growers and collectors in Fortunes?
8. What did the Gulf American Company sell?
9. How successful had the plant smuggler from Barbecued Doves been in his high time?
10. What orchid show did Susan attend in Fortunes? Who did she see there?
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