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title: "What Types Of Questions Can I Create?"
description: "Understand how to use the different question formats"
url: https://help.shiken.ai/en/articles/7889375-what-types-of-questions-can-i-create
collection: "Shiken For Creators"
updated: 2026-01-14
language: en
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# What Types Of Questions Can I Create?

Understand how to use the different question formats

Shiken features a wide range of question types designed to test higher-order thinking in a gamified way.

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Creators can select from 8 different questions types:

### Single Best Answer (SBA)

In SBA questions there is a question, a single correct answer and 3-4 distractor, incorrect answer options.

### Extended Matching Questions (EMQs)

EMQs offer a question, case study or scenario and then challenge the learner to select from a longer list of potential options. EMQs are great for more practical applications of knowledge.

### Viva Questions

Viva voce means 'spoken instead of written' and can be thought of as an oral or audio-based assessment. Vivas are great for interview style question-answer scenarios as well as conversations for topics like language learning and more. On mobile learners can talk to Shiken's AI and then our text-to-speech (TTS) system adds this to the chat log so learning is more conversational. When creating Viva questions you can begin with a scenario such as "You are interviewing for a job" and then add in multiple question stems that naturally follow on from that scenario.

### True/False

True/false questions are great for gamifying simple quizzes and forcing the learner to make a yes or no decision quickly.

### Ranking Order

Ranking order questions ask the learner to order a list of options with the correct order scoring full marks.

### Multi-Select

Multi-select questions are similar to single best answer questions but allow for multiple correct answers.

### Hot-Spot

Hot-spots are image-based questions that enable creators to add interaction points to any image. These are great for getting learners to identify parts of an image such as the structure of a cell.

### Flash-Cards

Flashcards are really simple. There is a question on one side and then the answer on the reverse.