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<question-wrap> Question Wrapper

Wrapper element used to contain a question and its answers and/or explanations concerning the question.

Usage/Remarks

The <question-wrap> model allows for a simple question, a simple question with its answer, a question with a set of answers, or even more complex groupings in which questions are followed by one or more answers, along with explanation(s). These question models may be used, for example, for the Continuing Medical Education articles in a book of articles.
Design Note
This is not a model for a full quiz, test, exam, learning module, etc., but such a model could be built using these components for the questions/answers.
Attributes
audience
content-type
specific-use

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<answer>, <app>, <bio>, <body>, <boxed-text>, <explanation>, <license-p>, <named-content>, <option>, <p>, <question>, <question-preamble>, <question-wrap-group>, <sec>, <styled-content>, <td>, <th>
Description
The following, in order:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  question-wrap
                        %question-wrap-model;                        >
Expanded Content Model

((object-id)*, question, (answer | answer-set)?, explanation*)

Tagged Samples
Multiple-choice with options and explanation 
...
<sec id="sec45">
 ...
 <question-wrap>
  <question id="q1" question-response-type="multiple-choice">
   <label>1</label>
   <p>Where was the first permanent English 
    settlement in the New World?</p>
   <option correct="no">
    <label>A</label>
    <p>Plymouth</p>
   </option>
   <option correct="yes" id="q1b">
    <label>B</label>
    <p>Jamestown</p>
   </option>
   <option correct="no">
    <label>C</label>
    <p>Roanoke</p>
   </option>
  </question>
  <explanation pointer-to-explained="q1b">
   <p>Established by the Virginia Company of London, Jamestown 
    was the first permanent English settlement in the New World; 
    it flourished from 1607 to 1699.  Although the Roanoke colony 
    was founded earlier (in 1587), that colony failed; upon returning 
    from a trip to England for supplies, its Governor found the 
    settlement abandoned.  Although one of the earliest New England 
    colonies, Plymouth (in modern Massachusetts) was not founded 
    by the Pilgrims until 1620.</p>
  </explanation>
 </question-wrap>
</sec>
...
True/False with answer and explanation 
...
<sec id="sec45">
 ...
 <question-wrap>
  <question id="q2" question-response-type="true-false">
   <p>Peregrine White was the first English 
    child born in North America.</p>
   <answer pointer-to-question="q2" id="ans2">
    <p>False</p></answer>
  </question>
  <explanation pointer-to-explained="ans2">
   <p>The first English child born in North America was 
    Virginia Dare.  She was born in August 1587, in the 
    short-lived colony of Roanoke.  Although the settlement 
    was later abandoned and the fate of its inhabitants a 
    mystery, records brought to England by her grandfather, 
    the governor of the colony, later in 1587 note her birth 
    and baptism.  Born in November 1620, Peregrine White 
    was the first child born in the Plymouth colony.</p>
  </explanation>
 </question-wrap>
</sec>
...
True/False with options and explanation 
...
<sec id="sec45">
 ...
 <question-wrap>
  <question id="q2" question-response-type="multiple-choice">
   <p>Peregrine White was the first English 
    child born in North America.</p>
   <option correct="no">
    <p>True</p></option>
   <option correct="yes" id="q2b">
    <p>False</p></option>
  </question>
  <explanation pointer-to-explained="q2b">
   <p>The first English child born in North America was 
    Virginia Dare.  She was born in August 1587, in the 
    short-lived colony of Roanoke (NC).  Although the settlement 
    was later abandoned and the fate of its inhabitants a 
    mystery, records brought to England by her grandfather, 
    the governor of the colony, later in 1587 note her birth 
    and baptism.  Born in November 1620, Peregrine White 
    was the first child born in the Plymouth colony (MA).</p>
  </explanation>
 </question-wrap>
</sec>
...
Multiple questions with <question-preamble> 
...
<question-wrap-group>
 <question-preamble>
  <p>Directions: Read the selection. Use the selection to answer 
   questions 1 &mdash; 4.</p>
  <disp-quote>
   <p>John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former 
    U.S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States 
    senator. He was ...</p>
   ...
  </disp-quote>
 </question-preamble>

 <question-wrap>
  <question id="q1" question-response-type="multiple-choice">
   <label>1</label>
   <p>In the selection, what does the word concussion mean?</p>
   <option correct="no"><label>A</label>
    <p>Judgement or decision reached by reasoning</p></option>
   <option correct="yes"><label>B</label>
    <p>Injury caused by a blow to the head</p></option>
   <option correct="no"><label>C</label>
    <p>Broken elbow</p></option>
  </question>
 </question-wrap>

 <question-wrap>
  <question id="q2" question-response-type="true-false">
   <label>2</label>
   <p>John Glenn was older than Georgy Beregovoy.</p>
  </question>
  <answer pointer-to-question="q2" id="ans2">
   <p>false</p></answer>
 </question-wrap>

 ...

</question-wrap-group>
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