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Susan Orlean
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Susan Orlean
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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. In what neighborhood of Miami does Lee Moore live?
(a) Allapattah.
(b) Flagami.
(c) Kendall.
(d) Edgewater.

2. Chief Billy Bowlegs had traveled to Washington D. C. on horseback to attempt to repeal a law passed in 1853 that had made it illegal for a Seminole to do what?
(a) Own land.
(b) Live in Florida.
(c) Marry a white woman.
(d) Carry a gun.

3. When was Osceola born?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1788.

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

5. Where did Susan go to hear Martin Motes speak in Plant Crimes?
(a) The Orchid Society of Palm Beach.
(b) The Orchid Society of Jacksonville.
(c) The Orchid Society of Tallahassee.
(d) The Orchid Society of Key West.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the largest nurseries in south Florida, Kerry's Bromeliads houses over how many orchids?

2. When did Robert Fuchs begin growing orchids professionally?

3. 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?

4. When did the government begin three Seminole "subjugation and removal efforts"?

5. What time of smuggling did Lee Moore's wife regale when she met Susan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about Laroche did Susan marvel about in Fortunes? What did Laroche go on to work with after plants?

2. Who was Osceola?

3. What are examples of things smuggled into Florida?

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

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

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

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

8. What does CITES stand for? What conflict do people have about CITES' regulations?

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

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

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