Dr S Bhatia

an intuitive use of wildcard '*' and the '&nbsp' can probably solve this.
If you can attach a sample question here with correct answer, may be i can rack my brains

Can a Cloze-based document handle a short-answer type question without requiring me to supply an answer. I would go through and manually grade the charts after the fact, since my class is pretty small.

Of course it can.
write this syntax in the cloze question window
This is your question and right after that you will have a box for short answers? {1:SHORTANSWER:~=*#Feedback for correct answer}

Mind you, this will treat every answer as correct and you will have to manually re-grade them as you appear prepared to do

Hi
Funny problem
how had you created this question?
can you attach a screenshot of the question's configuration?

Taking it a step further, click on 'item analysis' to get each questions analysis. you can export this too. see screenshot

I would like to be able to export all the responses for all the student into a spreadsheet by student so that I can analyze the results to determine:

Actually i don't know what is the difficulty in doing this. May be we are not able to understand each other

the steps are:-

login as admin> click on the quiz > results> overview.....
Now check the 'show marks details' and click on go...marks details will be visible.
Then export in excel format and BINGO.....
see the screenshot