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

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

3. How much money did Rupert Murdoch make from his investment in Uber?
(a) $430 million.
(b) $75 million.
(c) $50 million.
(d) $2 billion.

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

5. How much did the ADVIA 1800 machine weigh?
(a) 1,320 pounds.
(b) 1,756 pounds.
(c) 243 pounds.
(d) 545 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Carmen Washington working when John Carreyrou contacted her regarding the Theranos blood analyzers?

2. Where had Kyle Logan completed his chemical engineer studies before joining the Theranos team?

3. Where was Rupert Murdoch born?

4. Where did Alan Beam study pre-med when he moved to the U.S.?

5. Carreyrou states that Tyler Shultz's reasons for opening up to him about Theranos was twofold. One, he worried about patients getting inaccurate test results. What was the second reason?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Alan Beam tell Carreyrou about the Edisons in their first discussion?

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

5. How is the "chem 18" panel described?

6. How did Theranos affect the Shultz family?

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

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

9. What is the status of Theranos today?

10. What is significant about the FDA's approval for Theranos to run a test for herpes?

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