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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) Phoenix.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. What is the chemical symbol for phosphorus?
(a) P.
(b) K.
(c) L.
(d) M.

7. 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.

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

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

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

11. What had John Carreyrou just completed a year-long investigation on when he was tipped off on Theranos?
(a) Rupert Murdoch.
(b) Julian Assange.
(c) Tax evasion fraud.
(d) Medicare fraud.

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

13. How much was the "innovation fee" (160) that was agreed upon for Walgreens to pay Theranos for launching its blood-testing services in their pharmacy chains?
(a) $40 million.
(b) $50 million.
(c) $120 million.
(d) $100 million.

14. Where is Cox Enterprises based?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who signed the letter that was hand-delivered to Erika Cheung regarding her avoiding litigation from Theranos?

3. How much did the ADVIA 1800 machine weigh?

4. Who was the lone Theranos executive that came along with lawyers to the offices of the WSJ to talk with Carreyrou and his editor?

5. Where did Suraj Saksena earn his Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics?

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