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

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

3. Who requested a meeting with Dr. Sundene regarding John Carreyrou's investigation of Theranos (and was denied)?
(a) Heather King.
(b) Sunny Balwani.
(c) Michael Craig.
(d) Jay Rosan.

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

5. Who was the editor in chief at the Wall Street Journal when the author was conducting his investigation into Theranos?
(a) Gerry Baker.
(b) Matt Bissel.
(c) John Howard.
(d) Vernon Loucks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For how many years had John Carreyrou worked for the Wall Street Journal when he was tipped off about the Theranos story?

3. 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?

4. What is the chemical symbol for phosphorus?

5. Who did Sunny Balwani recruit to take on Alan Beam's position on the lab's CLIA license?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Theranos affect the Shultz family?

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

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

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

8. Who is Adam Clapper and what is his involvement with Theranos?

9. What is the status of Theranos today?

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

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