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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Erika Cheung working when she received a letter from Theranos lawyers during Carreyrou's investigation?
2. Who did Sunny Balwani recruit to take on Alan Beam's position on the lab's CLIA license?
3. What is the chemical symbol for phosphorus?
4. How much money did Rupert Murdoch make from his investment in Uber?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who from the Wall Street Journal attended the first meeting with the Theranos team, according to the author in Chapter 21?
2. How is the "chem 18" panel described?
3. What happened at Holmes's speech at the Clinical Chemistry conference described in Chapter 24?
4. How did Theranos affect the Shultz family?
5. How did Theranos respond when the company learned Carreyrou was writing an investigative piece on the company?
6. What came after Carreyrou's first article in the WSJ was published?
7. What is the status of Theranos today?
8. What is the ADVIA 1800 and what is its involvement at Theranos?
9. Who is Rupert Murdoch and why is he important in this story?
10. How did Ian Gibbons die? How did his death impact Theranos?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the Fuisz family. How did they know the Holmeses? How did they become involved with Theranos? What was the fallout of this involvement?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the claims that Elizabeth Holmes made regarding the capacities of the Edison machines. What were they capable of testing in her claims? What were they capable of testing in reality? What made this technology stand out?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the Edison and the miniLab. What were these machines supposed to do? What were they actually capable of doing? How did the two prototypes differ from one another?
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