Quiz Maker Help Documentation

A complete guide to the Quiz Maker, from your text to your results.

Last Updated: November 12, 2026

1. Getting Started

The Quiz Maker works in four steps, shown at the top of the tool: Content (paste text and pick settings), Review (check and edit the questions), Play (answer them) and Results (your score and every answer). Everything happens on this page; nothing is uploaded and there is no account. To see how it works, press one of the three samples (The Solar System, The human body or Ancient Rome) and then Generate quiz.

2. Adding Your Text

Paste text into the box, open a plain text (.txt) or Markdown (.md) file of up to 2 MB with Open file, or drop the file on the box. Under the box the page counts the words and the sentences it can use and how many questions they are enough for. Clear empties the box and the title. Up to 100,000 characters are used; a longer text or file is cut there, and the page says so.

3. Quiz Settings

• Title: up to 80 characters; a sample or an opened file fills it in.
• Questions: from 3 to 30, with the slider or the minus and plus buttons.
• Question types: multiple choice, true or false and fill in the blank, each On or Off; at least one stays on.
• Time per question: off, 15, 30 or 60 seconds.
• Shuffle question order: a new order for each attempt; off keeps the order of your text.
• Show the answer after each question: on shows whether you were right, the right answer and the sentence it came from; off moves straight on.

4. How the Questions Are Made

The text is cleaned (citation marks such as [1] and remarks in brackets are left out) and split into sentences. In each sentence the Quiz Maker scores the words worth asking about: names (one or more capitalised words such as Great Red Spot or Julius Caesar), numbers (such as 1831, 206 or 99.8) and key words that follow "the", "a", a preposition, a name or a number. Common words and words that appear in most sentences score lower. The best word of each sentence becomes a question; with more questions asked for, a second word from some sentences.

For multiple choice, the three wrong answers are names or numbers of the same kind from your text (other years for a year, other planets for a planet), or close numbers when the text has too few; a simple sentence becomes a Who, What, When or Where question. For true or false, half the statements are your sentence as written (true) and half have one word swapped for another of the same kind (false). For fill in the blank, the word is replaced by a line. Long numbers such as 7,500 are asked as multiple choice when that kind is on, because few people can type them from memory. When a fact cannot be asked in the kinds you picked, another of your kinds is tried, then another fact.

5. Reviewing and Editing

The Review screen lists every question with its kind, its choices, the right answer marked in green and the sentence it came from. You can rename the quiz at the top, and:

• Edit a question: change its kind, the question, up to four answers (pick the right one), the right answer of a true or false statement, the answers a typed answer may use (separated by commas; a number such as 7,500 stays whole) and an explanation.
• Delete a question, or Add question to write your own (up to 100 per quiz).
• Regenerate for a fresh set from the same text, for a quiz made from the text in this visit.
• Back to the text and settings, Save, Share or Start quiz.

6. Playing a Quiz

The quiz shows one question at a time with its kind, its number, a bar of all questions (green for right, red for missed) and, with a time limit, a ring that counts down and turns red for the last five seconds. Tap an answer, or type the missing word or number and press Check or Enter. Skip counts a question as missed. The cross at the top left quits, after asking if you have answered anything. The clock counts from the moment the question appeared, so it keeps time even in a background tab.

7. Points, Streaks and Grades

A right answer earns 100 points, plus up to 50 for the time left (50 times the seconds left divided by the time limit, rounded), plus 10 for every right answer in a row after the first, up to 50. The flame next to the points shows the streak from two right answers in a row. The grade is A for 90% or more, B for 80%, C for 70%, D for 50% and E below.

8. How Typed Answers Are Checked

• Capital letters, extra spaces, punctuation and "the", "a" or "an" in front do not matter.
• One wrong, missing or extra letter is allowed in an answer of five letters or more, and two in one of nine or more.
• For a name of several words, a distinctive part is also accepted (Caesar for Julius Caesar), but not a general word such as Empire or River.
• A number counts when it is equal (7500 for 7,500) or correctly rounded (99.9 or 100 for 99.86); figures of 10,000 and more also count within 1 percent. Four-digit numbers such as years must be exact.

9. Results and Retrying

The results show your percentage in a ring, the grade, your points, the number right, your best streak and the time taken, a bar for each kind of question and, after the first attempt, your best score on this quiz. Below, every question shows your answer and the right one; All, Missed and Correct filter the list. Play again starts a new attempt, Retry the ones I missed plays only the missed questions (not counted as a best score), Copy my result copies a line with your score and the share link, and New quiz goes back to the start.

10. Saving Quizzes

Save keeps the quiz in this browser; saving it again updates it. Saved quizzes appear under the text box with the number of questions, your best score and the date, and can be opened or deleted. Up to 30 quizzes are kept, within a set amount of space so other tools on the site keep room for their data; when it is full, the page says so and nothing is removed without asking. The last text you made a quiz from and its settings come back when you return.

11. Share Links, Files and Printable Text

Share opens a window with a link that holds the whole quiz after the # sign. Browsers never send that part of a link to a server, and the page takes it out of the address bar as soon as it opens. Copy puts the link on your clipboard; very long links (from about 8,000 characters) may not paste into every chat app, and the quiz file always works. Download quiz file saves a small .json file named after the quiz; open it later with "open a quiz file". Copy as printable text copies the questions with their choices and an answer key at the end.

A quiz from a link or a file is checked before it opens: each question must have text and a usable answer, a multiple choice two to four choices with the right one among them, and a true or false statement a true or false answer. Anything else is left out.

12. Limits

• Text: 100,000 characters; files: 2 MB; sentences: 5 to 45 words and up to 1,000 characters.
• Questions: 3 to 30 made at once, up to 100 per quiz with your own; question text 1,000 characters, an answer choice 300, a typed answer 200, explanations 1,200, titles 80.
• Saved quizzes: 30; scores: the last 20 per quiz.
• Share links: up to 1,000,000 characters.

13. Keyboard and Accessibility

Every button, switch and box can be reached with Tab. While a quiz is playing on the screen and no window is open, 1 to 4 pick a multiple choice answer, T and F answer true or false, and Enter or Space goes on; these keys do nothing elsewhere on the page. Enter in the answer box checks a typed answer. Windows close with Escape. Whether an answer was right is announced to screen readers, and the right answer is named in the review. Animations stop with reduced motion turned on in your device's settings.

14. Privacy and Your Data

Your text, quizzes and scores stay in this browser on this device; there is no upload and no account, and the tool asks no outside service for anything. A share link carries the quiz only to the people you send it to. Like every page on ZeroDataUpload, the page shows ads through Google AdSense and counts visits with Google Analytics; the Privacy Policy explains both.

15. How It Was Checked

Before publishing, the tool's question maker and answer check were compared with a separate program and with the original version: 436,858 cases in 13 groups, among them thousands of quizzes from the samples and from made-up texts (every question's answer found in its sentence, no wrong choice equal to the right one, every true statement word for word from the text, every false one a single swap), the same questions as the original with all kinds on, only the picked kinds with fewer on, typed answers with capitals, typos and rounded numbers, points and the clock, links and files made to break the tool, and texts of 100,000 characters made of long runs of spaces, commas or letters. The page itself was then tested in a browser on phones and computers in both themes, with long and hostile text, blocked storage and the keyboard. The original version could take minutes on such texts, stopped on numbers with many decimals, turned questions into kinds that were switched off, offered a percentage over 100 as a wrong choice, could mark another sentence of your own text as a false statement, let a crafted link put markup into the page, and skipped a question when a key was pressed just before the next one; that is fixed.

16. Troubleshooting and Support

• Generate quiz stays grey. The text needs at least one sentence of 5 to 45 words in English letters.
• Fewer questions than I asked for. The text has too few sentences or facts; paste more, or switch on more kinds of question.
• A question is wrong or odd. Edit or delete it on the Review screen; the questions are made by rules from your sentences.
• The link does not open the quiz. It may have been cut when it was pasted; send the quiz file instead.
• No sound. Check the speaker button next to the steps and your device's volume; some browsers allow sound only after a tap on the page.
• My saved quizzes are gone. They are kept per browser and device; a private window or cleared site data starts afresh.

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