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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. 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?

2. Who was the deputy general counsel of the Wall Street Journal's parent company that attended the meeting with Theranos?

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

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

5. Where did Suraj Saksena earn his Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of company is Chiat\Day? How was the company involved with Theranos? What employees from Chiat\Day came to work for Theranos?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Alan Beam and his role at Theranos. How did he come to work there? In what capacity did he work there? Why did he leave the company?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Edmund Ku? Where did he grow up? What did he study and where? How did he become employed at Theranos and in what capacity? When and why did he leave the company?

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