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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Who is the former Netscape founder whose wife had profiled Holmes for the New York Times's style magazine?
(a) Vernon Loucks.
(b) Marc Andreessen.
(c) John Howard.
(d) Matt Bissel.

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

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

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

8. 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) June 5, 2012.
(b) May 23, 2014.
(c) June 10, 2015.
(d) September 23, 2015.

9. What is the chemical symbol for potassium?
(a) K.
(b) N.
(c) P.
(d) Q.

10. 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) Michael Craig and James Mattis.
(b) Matt Bissel and Chris Todd.
(c) Arnold Gelb and Clive Wilkinson.
(d) Lauren Beardsley and Saman Rezaie.

11. For how many years had John Carreyrou worked for the Wall Street Journal when he was tipped off about the Theranos story?
(a) 22 years.
(b) 19 years.
(c) 16 years.
(d) 12 years.

12. Where was Carmen Washington working when John Carreyrou contacted her regarding the Theranos blood analyzers?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Texas.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Arizona.

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

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) Normandy.
(b) Yoda.
(c) Apple.
(d) Theranos II.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did Chinmay Pangarkar earn his Ph.D. in chemical engineering?

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

5. Where had John Fuisz and Mike Underhill been colleagues?

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