[MWForum]How do I create a multiple choice quiz?

[Wendy Petti]

Daniel's quiz project worked for me.  It is clever to be able to place
different questions and answers in the text boxes as Daniel demonstrated...
but it is not the easiest way to create a quiz if you are just getting
started.

There are some useful MicroWorlds articles on the "Computelec" website,
including one on creating a board game quiz.  The sample game in
"MicroWorlds Games #5:  A Board Game Quiz" is not a multiple choice quiz,
but it could be adapted to become one:

http://www.computelec.com/support_files/educational_resources/default.asp?t
itleid=177

(If that URL wraps, you might need to cut and paste it.)

This article also explains a method for responding to wrong answers and a
method for keeping score.  Studying the code might give you some ideas for
how to give the user two chances for a correct answer as you hope to do.
(You might create a variable for keeping track of whether this is the first
guess or the second guess.  If it is the first guess and is wrong, you
might respond, "Sorry, try again!"  If it is the second guess and is wrong,
you might announce the correct answer as demonstrated in the article.  Only
after the second wrong guess would the scoring mechanism count this as an
official wrong answer and then move on to the next question.)

I am trying to remember how to insert line breaks in a question so that we
can list choices in a multiple choice question instead of having all of the
text run together.  I did an ASCII inquiry and when I hit the "enter"
button it reported it to be character 13.  But when I tried using "char 13"
in my code, I got this error message:

"The minimum value for char is 32 in Q1."

Can anyone help out on that?  (I seem to remember that an alternative is to
format questions in textboxes and then insert the contents of the textbox
into a question, but I wanted to keep the file size small and not create a
lot of textboxes; that is why I was attempting the ASCII method.)

Wendy Petti
OWL's MicroWorlds in Action
http://mia.openworldlearning.org
Math Cats
http://www.mathcats.com
wpetti@mathcats.com

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [MWForum]How do I create a multiple choice quiz?
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> Thanks for your help, Daniel. Do you know why I keep getting the error
> "button has no value in check"? when I try your attachment?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Ajoy" <dajoy@openworldlearning.org>
> To: <mwforum@lists.mathcats.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 12:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [MWForum]How do I create a multiple choice quiz?
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> > ok. Attached.
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> > Daniel
> > OpenWorld Learning
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> >
> > On 8 Aug 2003 at 12:02, Lara Frawley wrote:
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> > > Hi Daniel
> > > Yes, I would like to see your quiz. Thanks.
> > >
> >
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