Itamar Tzadok

Thanks Pierre. My hacks are a necessity rather then a choice. I use what I have, but I don't have much, so I have to be creative. To put it another way, if I had access to the core code I would definitely do something along the lines of what you mentioned. At any rate the Cloze question apparently exceeded its designers' expectations. For me it's main strength is in its flexibility in laying out structurally complex questions (which otherwise use the standard embedded question types). I posted some images of questions I used. The rest is a bonus.

The drop down has to be there because this is how the quiz marks the question. And you can see it because if it were hidden you wouldn't understand what I'm referring to. But you can easily hide it as I suggested above.

I couldn't resist it:

Here is a simple code for restoring the radio button values after submission:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var sel=document.getElementsByTagName("select");
for (i=0;i<sel.length;i++){
var ind=sel[i].selectedIndex;
if (sel[i].parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[ind].firstChild.type=="radio"){
sel[i].parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[ind].firstChild.checked=true;
}
}
-->
</script>

It should be included once in every quiz page. The DOM path assumes the above table structure so if you change that structure you may need to change the path. Let me know if it works for you.

Itamar

By the way, I don't think you need the 'No Idea' as it is the default when none of the radio buttons is checked. Moreover, any reasonable student will prefer choosing either True of False over No Idea even if he or she has no idea simply because 'No Idea' is not really a possible answer to the question.