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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. Who did Alan Beam say was running Theranos's day-to-day operations when she first spoke with John Carreyrou?
(a) Sunny Balwani.
(b) John Laurens.
(c) Tara Lencioni.
(d) Jay Rosan.

2. Where did Suraj Saksena earn his Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics?
(a) Texas A and M.
(b) The University of California, San Francisco.
(c) The University of California, Santa Barbara.
(d) Louisiana State University.

3. What was the title of John Carreyrou's WSJ article on Theranos?
(a) "Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup."
(b) "A Prized Startup's Struggles."
(c) "Elizabeth Holmes: Who is She?"
(d) "Tech Giant Theranos Under Question."

4. 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?
(a) Trakstar.
(b) Linux.
(c) Trustpilot.
(d) Glassdoor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money was Theranos paying Channing Robertson ostensibly as a consultant at the time of the Fuisz trial?

2. Where did John Carreyrou meet with Nicole Sundene?

3. Who was a former Hillary Clinton aide and the new Theranos' general counsel when the team came to meet with Carreyrou at the WSJ offices?

4. When did Elizabeth Holmes make a speech at the TEDMED conference in San Francisco regarding Theranos and describing her uncle's death?

5. Who is said to have leased a new Mercedes every six months in order to avoid having plates on his car?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Theranos respond when the company learned Carreyrou was writing an investigative piece on the company?

2. How did Roger Parloff contribute to Elizabeth Holmes's rise to fame?

3. Who from the Wall Street Journal attended the first meeting with the Theranos team, according to the author in Chapter 21?

4. How did some Theranos employees manage to evade Sunny's unpredictability in the office?

5. What is the ADVIA 1800 and what is its involvement at Theranos?

6. What happened at Holmes's speech at the Clinical Chemistry conference described in Chapter 24?

7. Who is Rupert Murdoch and why is he important in this story?

8. How did Theranos affect the Shultz family?

9. Who is Adam Clapper and what is his involvement with Theranos?

10. Who were the allies to Richard Fuisz in his efforts to question Holmes's activities, as described in Chapter 18?

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