<question-wrap>

Question Wrapper

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

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

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  question-wrap
                        %question-wrap-model;                        >

Expanded Content Model

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

Description

This element may be contained in:

Example 1

Multiple-choice style question (with options given) and an explanation:
    
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<sec id="sec45">
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<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>
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Example 2

True/False style question (tagged as an answer) with an explanation:
    
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<sec id="sec45">
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<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>
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Example 3

True/False question (tagged as two options) with an explanation:
    
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<sec id="sec45">
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<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>
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Example 4

As part of a group of related questions following a <question-preamble>:
       
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<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>
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</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>

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</question-wrap-group>
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