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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did John Carreyrou meet with Nicole Sundene?
(a) Beirut.
(b) New York.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Chicago.

2. 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) Trustpilot.
(b) Trakstar.
(c) Linux.
(d) Glassdoor.

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

4. Who was the editor in chief at the Wall Street Journal when the author was conducting his investigation into Theranos?
(a) John Howard.
(b) Vernon Loucks.
(c) Matt Bissel.
(d) Gerry Baker.

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

6. What blog did Adam Clapper run when he contacted the author about Theranos?
(a) Society Blog.
(b) Mechanics and Engineering.
(c) Lost Coast Blog.
(d) Pathology Blawg.

7. Who did Alan Beam replace as lab director for Theranos?
(a) Chris Todd.
(b) Arnold Gelb.
(c) James Mattis.
(d) Jay Rosan.

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

9. How old was Kyle Logan when he joined the Theranos team?
(a) 32.
(b) 19.
(c) 25.
(d) 22.

10. Where had Kyle Logan completed his chemical engineer studies before joining the Theranos team?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Stanford.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

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

12. How did Ian Gibbons die?
(a) He was murdered.
(b) He died of complications from cancer.
(c) He was in a car accident.
(d) He committed suicide.

13. Carreyrou states that Tyler Shultz's reasons for opening up to him about Theranos was twofold. One, he worried about patients getting inaccurate test results. What was the second reason?
(a) He worried about his mother's reputation.
(b) He worried about his grandfather's reputation.
(c) He worried about media exposure.
(d) He worried about his future employment.

14. Of the two labs at Theranos headquarters, the upper one is said to have been nicknamed Jurassic Park while the lower lab was nicknamed what?
(a) Theranos II.
(b) Apple.
(c) Yoda.
(d) Normandy.

15. Who was hired to design the interior of the new building Theranos leased from Stanford in 2014?
(a) Clive Wilkinson.
(b) Jay Rosan.
(c) Tara Lencioni.
(d) Arnold Gelb.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what publication did Elizabeth Holmes state in an interview after Carreyrou's reporting that she was the victim of sexism?

3. How much money did Rupert Murdoch invest in Uber?

4. Who was Elizabeth Holmes's uncle who died from cancer?

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

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