How to incorporate multiple lines into quiz questions and answer explanations

Hello,

I am trying to convert a riddle book into a quiz as a way of improving literacy. This is how it’s formatted in the Word document. (I have since converted it to SFM.)

I had to get creative, since currently the quiz feature is only set up for multiple choice, but I don’t want the user to see the answer until he hits a button. So I give just one “answer” called “Show Answer” and then I put the actual answer in the answer’s explanation. (Side note, this emulates the way a flashcard would work).

The easy way of formatting the questions would be:

\qu What could it be? What has to be broken before you can use it?

\ar Show Answer
\ae An egg

But this has some issues:

  • No picture
  • Poor text formatting. If you look at the print screen, the riddles always have the same formatting: “What could it be?”, followed by several short sentences or phrases, each on their own line.

For the questions, below are some other configurations I have tried, but none of them allow me to get more than one line of text.

\qu What could it be? 
\qu What has to be broken 
\qu before you can use it?

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\qu What could it be? 
\p What has to be broken 
\p before you can use it?

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\qu What could it be? 
\b What has to be broken 
\b before you can use it?

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\qu What could it be? 
What has to be broken 
before you can use it?

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\qu What could it be? // What has to be broken // before you can use it?

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\qu What could it be? \p What has to be broken \p before you can use it?

I haven’t been able to troubleshoot the answer side much yet. I thought maybe I could embed the answer text in the image and show the image as an explanation, but it doesn’t work- it just shows the file name as text. Ideally I could have a line of text and an image. These configurations don’t work:

\ar Show Answer
\ae egg.png

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\ar Show Answer
\ae An egg
\p egg.png

Are there any ideas on how to get multiple lines in a question, and text and image in an explanation?

Thanks!

Hi Alex,
I don’t think the functionality exists for an explanation being a picture–only a line of text and/or an mp3. You could put in a feature request for that (or send it to me and I’ll put it in as an enhancement request).
For the question, you could put the “What could it be?” as the quiz title, so it shows up in the menu bar and/or put it into the question image, with the riddle itself as the question text. Or have you tried that?