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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Alan Beam study pre-med when he moved to the U.S.?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Harvard.

4. How did Arnav Khanna devise a way to keep Sunny off his back?
(a) He would invite Sunny to business lunches.
(b) He would flirt with Elizabeth Holmes.
(c) He would talk to Elizabeth Holmes.
(d) He would write 500+ word email replies to him.

5. Where was Erika Cheung working when she received a letter from Theranos lawyers during Carreyrou's investigation?
(a) Amgen.
(b) Biogen, Inc.
(c) Gilead Sciences.
(d) Antibody Solutions.

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

7. Who was Elizabeth Holmes's uncle who died from cancer?
(a) Arnold Gelb.
(b) Jay Rosan.
(c) Ron Dietz.
(d) Clive Wilkinson.

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

9. 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.

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

11. Who signed the letter that was hand-delivered to Erika Cheung regarding her avoiding litigation from Theranos?
(a) Jay Rosan.
(b) Michael Craig.
(c) David Boies.
(d) Heather King.

12. How old was Richard Fuisz when the patent trial with Theranos took place?
(a) 82.
(b) 67.
(c) 74.
(d) 56.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Theranos software engineer did Balwani task with writing an application for the miniLab's software that masked test malfunctions?

2. What blog did Adam Clapper run when he contacted the author about Theranos?

3. Who is the former Netscape founder whose wife had profiled Holmes for the New York Times's style magazine?

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 requested a meeting with Dr. Sundene regarding John Carreyrou's investigation of Theranos (and was denied)?

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