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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what magazine was Roger Parloff the legal correspondent when he came upon the patent trial between Theranos and the Fuiszes?
(a) Time.
(b) Fortune.
(c) Litigation Daily.
(d) The New Yorker.

2. What German conglomerate's medical-products subsidiary produced the ADVIA machines?
(a) Vetrex Pharmaceuticals.
(b) Siemens Healthcare.
(c) Gilead Sciences.
(d) Biogen Incorporated.

3. When was Carreyrou's story on Theranos published in the Wall Street Journal?
(a) October 15, 2015.
(b) September 2, 2016.
(c) June 2, 2014.
(d) March 12, 2008.

4. For how many years had John Carreyrou worked for the Wall Street Journal when he was tipped off about the Theranos story?
(a) 19 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 22 years.
(d) 16 years.

5. When Elizabeth Holmes interviewed with Roger Parloff, what valuation did she assign to Theranos?
(a) $6 billion.
(b) $12 billion.
(c) $4 billion.
(d) $9 billion.

6. How much money did Rupert Murdoch invest in Theranos in their last round of fundraising, according to the author in Chapter 23?
(a) $430 million.
(b) $231 million.
(c) $2 billion.
(d) $40 million.

7. Who is the former Netscape founder whose wife had profiled Holmes for the New York Times's style magazine?
(a) John Howard.
(b) Matt Bissel.
(c) Marc Andreessen.
(d) Vernon Loucks.

8. Where was Timothy Hamill vice chairman of the Department of Laboratory Medicine when Carreyrou contacted him?
(a) Texas A and M.
(b) The University of California, San Francisco.
(c) Louisiana State University.
(d) The University of California, San Diego.

9. What Theranos software engineer did Balwani task with writing an application for the miniLab's software that masked test malfunctions?
(a) Michael Craig.
(b) Jay Rosan.
(c) Heather King.
(d) Sunil Dhawan.

10. How much money was Theranos paying Channing Robertson ostensibly as a consultant at the time of the Fuisz trial?
(a) $800,000 a year.
(b) $100,000 a year.
(c) $500,000 a year.
(d) $300,000 a year.

11. How much money did Rupert Murdoch make from his investment in Uber?
(a) $430 million.
(b) $2 billion.
(c) $75 million.
(d) $50 million.

12. Where did Alan Beam grow up?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Australia.
(d) South Africa.

13. When did Elizabeth Holmes make a speech at the TEDMED conference in San Francisco regarding Theranos and describing her uncle's death?
(a) December, 2015.
(b) March, 2012.
(c) September, 2014.
(d) April, 2007.

14. Who was Carreyrou's editor and the head of the investigations team at the Wall Street Journal during the Theranos scandal?
(a) Mike Siconolfi.
(b) Michael Craig.
(c) Jay Rosan.
(d) Heather King.

15. Whose quote closed out Carreyrou's initial article on Theranos in the WSJ?
(a) Maureen Glunz's.
(b) Matt Bissel's.
(c) Vernon Loucks's.
(d) John Howard's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Alan Beam say was running Theranos's day-to-day operations when she first spoke with John Carreyrou?

2. Who was the editor in chief at the Wall Street Journal when the author was conducting his investigation into Theranos?

3. What is the name of the website where current and former employees can review companies anonymously, and where one report titled "A pile of PR lies" about Theranos?

4. Who did Sunny Balwani recruit to take on Alan Beam's position on the lab's CLIA license?

5. Who described trying to set up Elizabeth Holmes on dates in a New Yorker article featuring her?

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