Lesson

Brian,

Just to be on the safe side, I would recommend changing the fitemtitle class specifically for the lesson view page. You can do this by adding the following line to your moodle2/mod/lesson/styles.css file:

#page-mod-lesson-view .fitemtitle {text-align:left; width:50%;}

A width of 50% is reasonable, if you keep the text of the right pairs short enough (see #3 below).

Notes.-

1. The display of the matching question in Quiz is better than in Lesson.
2. A number of small fixes are needed for the Lesson module. Hopefully a new maintainer will be appointed by Moodle HQ, who will take care of the many bug reports which are pending.
3. The problem with the matching question type, as well in Quiz as in Lesson is that it makes use of a dropdown list for the pairs to be matched on the right. When the text of those pairs is longish, the dropdown lists may take a large amount of horizontal space, which reduces the horizontal space available to the text of the left pairs. A better solution would be to adopt the "drag & drop" feature of the Hot Potatoes matching question type. But this feature has its own (vertical) problems.