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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the chairman of Cox Enterprises when they invested in Theranos?
(a) Jim Kennedy.
(b) Matt Bissel.
(c) Vernon Loucks.
(d) John Howard.

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

3. Who did Sunny Balwani recruit to take on Alan Beam's position on the lab's CLIA license?
(a) Heather King.
(b) Michael Craig.
(c) Jay Rosan.
(d) Sunil Dhawan.

4. 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 future employment.
(b) He worried about his grandfather's reputation.
(c) He worried about his mother's reputation.
(d) He worried about media exposure.

5. Who were the two doctors that Theranos lawyers claimed had been misrepresented in Carreyrou's investigative story on Theranos in a letter sent to the WSJ's counsel?
(a) Arnold Gelb and Clive Wilkinson.
(b) Lauren Beardsley and Saman Rezaie.
(c) Michael Craig and James Mattis.
(d) Matt Bissel and Chris Todd.

6. Who described trying to set up Elizabeth Holmes on dates in a New Yorker article featuring her?
(a) Tara Lencioni.
(b) Barack Obama.
(c) Jay Rosan.
(d) Henry Kissinger.

7. Where did Chinmay Pangarkar earn his Ph.D. in chemical engineering?
(a) The University of California, Santa Barbara.
(b) The University of California, San Francisco.
(c) Louisiana State University.
(d) Texas A and M.

8. For how long had Tyler Shultz worked at Theranos?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 10 months.

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

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) $300,000 a year.
(c) $100,000 a year.
(d) $500,000 a year.

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

12. How much did the ADVIA 1800 machine weigh?
(a) 545 pounds.
(b) 1,756 pounds.
(c) 1,320 pounds.
(d) 243 pounds.

13. On what date did Elizabeth Holmes sign a contract with Walgreens promising to launch its blood-testing services in some of the pharmacy chain's stores by February of 2013?
(a) September 23, 2015.
(b) June 5, 2012.
(c) June 10, 2015.
(d) May 23, 2014.

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

15. When was Roger Parloff's cover story on Elizabeth Holmes published?
(a) August 2, 2015.
(b) September, 12, 2010.
(c) May 3, 2013.
(d) June 12, 2014.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years had John Carreyrou worked for the Wall Street Journal when he was tipped off about the Theranos story?

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

3. Where was Timothy Hamill vice chairman of the Department of Laboratory Medicine when Carreyrou contacted him?

4. What German conglomerate's medical-products subsidiary produced the ADVIA machines?

5. In July of 2015, the FDA approved the Theranos proprietary finger-stick test for what?

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