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Test questions

Last Updated: 20th Mar 2020

By Jolyon Ralph

You can now add self-test questions to your articles in mindat.org - here's the markup code for a simple question

<question>1. Which of these is not a mineral?
<answer>Diamond</answer>
<answer>Quartz</answer>
<answer correct>Cheese</answer>
</question>


1. Which of these is not a mineral?





If there are more than one correct answer, and any single answer is correct, you can simply add them like this:


<question>2. Choose any mineral that contains essential iron
<answer correct>Pyrite</answer>
<answer>Calcite</answer>
<answer correct>Siderite</answer>
<answer>Fluorite</answer>
<answer>Gypsum</answer>
<answer>Cuprite</answer>
</question>

2. Choose any mineral that contains essential iron




For a multi-choice question, where all correct answers must be selected

<question multi='all'>3.Which of these statements is/are correct?
<answer>Quartz is harder than topaz</answer>
<answer correct>Topaz has perfect cleavage</answer>
<answer>Quartz has perfect cleavage</answer>
<answer correct>Quartz has Conchoidal fracture</answer>
</question>

3.Which of these statements is/are correct?





Finally, to add the 'submit' button to calculate results,

<score>Click here to calculate your results</score>




Try it above!




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To cite: Ralph, J., Von Bargen, D., Martynov, P., Zhang, J., Que, X., Prabhu, A., Morrison, S. M., Li, W., Chen, W., & Ma, X. (2025). Mindat.org: The open access mineralogy database to accelerate data-intensive geoscience research. American Mineralogist, 110(6), 833–844. doi:10.2138/am-2024-9486.
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