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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. Who did Elizabeth Holmes appoint as a new board director after the publication of the first two articles by Carreyrou?

2. How much money was Theranos paying Channing Robertson ostensibly as a consultant at the time of the Fuisz trial?

3. When did Elizabeth Holmes make a speech at the TEDMED conference in San Francisco regarding Theranos and describing her uncle's death?

4. Who is the former Netscape founder whose wife had profiled Holmes for the New York Times's style magazine?

5. How did Arnav Khanna devise a way to keep Sunny off his back?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who were the allies to Richard Fuisz in his efforts to question Holmes's activities, as described in Chapter 18?

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

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

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

8. How did Theranos affect the Shultz family?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Theranos's mission as a company? Who founded it? When was it founded? What products did it promise to produce? Why did the company fail?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the relationship between Theranos and Safeway. What commitments were made between these two companies? What came to fruition of those agreements? What happened after the fallout of Theranos?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the hurdles that author John Carreyrou faced in his investigative reporting on Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. What were the legal issues faced? What issues arose based on ownership of the Wall Street Journal? How were these issues faced?

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