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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. What was the title of John Carreyrou's WSJ article on Theranos?
(a) "Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup."
(b) "A Prized Startup's Struggles."
(c) "Tech Giant Theranos Under Question."
(d) "Elizabeth Holmes: Who is She?"

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

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

5. What blog did Adam Clapper run when he contacted the author about Theranos?
(a) Pathology Blawg.
(b) Society Blog.
(c) Lost Coast Blog.
(d) Mechanics and Engineering.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Roger Parloff's cover story on Elizabeth Holmes published?

2. How much money did Rupert Murdoch invest in Theranos in their last round of fundraising, according to the author in Chapter 23?

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

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

5. Whose quote closed out Carreyrou's initial article on Theranos in the WSJ?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Rupert Murdoch and why is he important in this story?

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

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

4. Why was Erika Cheung terrified by the letter she received from Theranos following her relating information to Carreyrou?

5. Who from the Wall Street Journal attended the first meeting with the Theranos team, according to the author in Chapter 21?

6. How did Theranos affect the Shultz family?

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

8. How did Theranos respond when the company learned Carreyrou was writing an investigative piece on the company?

9. What came after Carreyrou's first article in the WSJ was published?

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

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