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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the deputy general counsel of the Wall Street Journal's parent company that attended the meeting with Theranos?
(a) Heather King.
(b) Michael Craig.
(c) Jay Rosan.
(d) Jay Conti.

2. 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.

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

4. Who is said to have leased a new Mercedes every six months in order to avoid having plates on his car?
(a) Bill Gates.
(b) Alex Jones.
(c) Steve Jobs.
(d) Barack Obama.

5. What was the code name of the device Theranos was developing to replace the Edison machines?
(a) 4S.
(b) 2S.
(c) 3S.
(d) 6S.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the chairman of Cox Enterprises when they invested in Theranos?

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?

3. How old was Richard Fuisz when the patent trial with Theranos took place?

4. Who is the lawyer that Theranos hired in its suit against the Fuiszes?

5. Who was the editor in chief at the Wall Street Journal when the author was conducting his investigation into Theranos?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did some Theranos employees manage to evade Sunny's unpredictability in the office?

2. How did Alan Beam come to work for Theranos? What was his position?

3. Who was among the Theranos delegation that came to the Wall Street Journal's offices for their first meeting, as described in Chapter 21?

4. How did Roger Parloff contribute to Elizabeth Holmes's rise to fame?

5. Who is George Shultz and what is his connection to Theranos?

6. How does the narrative style change in Chapter 19? Why?

7. What happened at Holmes's speech at the Clinical Chemistry conference described in Chapter 24?

8. What is the ADVIA 1800 and what is its involvement at Theranos?

9. Why were the Fuiszes not considered to be worthy sources to John Carreyrou?

10. How did Ian Gibbons die? How did his death impact Theranos?

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