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StarKid
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Formatting Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions

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Is there a package with which I can label answer options to multiple-choice questions with numbers (rather than letters) and have a variable number of answer choices for each question?

So far, I've looked at exam, examdesign, exsheets, exams, qcm, and exam-n, and all of them lack one or both of these features.

Alternatively, is there a way I can alter multiple-choice answer labeling in the above packages?

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kaiserkarl13
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Formatting Answers to Multiple-Choice Questions

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You can change the multiple choice labels in the exam package via something like this:

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\renewcommand\thechoice{\arabic{choice}}
You can also change the label punctuation via

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\renewcommand\choicelabel{(\thechoice)}
The above commands will produce choices like this:
(1) first choice
(2) second choice
(3) third choice
(4) fourth choice
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