AI Quiz Generator - Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quiz Maker

Create ready-to-use quizzes for any topic with this AI quiz generator. The Actor turns a topic into structured multiple-choice questions, short-answer questions, correct answers, ideal answers, and explanations that you can export from Apify as JSON, CSV, Excel, or through the API.

Use it as a quiz maker for e-learning content, LMS question banks, trivia apps, corporate training assessments, student revision tools, and educational content workflows.

What This Actor Does

• Generates AI quiz questions for almost any subject, lesson, book, topic, product, policy, or training module.
• Supports multiple-choice questions with four answer options and one exact correct answer.
• Supports short-answer questions with an ideal answer for grading or review.
• Adds explanations to help learners understand why an answer is correct.
• Lets you choose easy, medium, or hard difficulty.
• Offers standard and premium quality tiers depending on your accuracy and cost needs.
• Saves every question as a clean dataset item that is easy to export or integrate.

Best Use Cases

• Online course quizzes and LMS assessment questions
• Multiple-choice question generation for lessons and modules
• Trivia question generation for apps, games, and events
• Corporate training checks and employee knowledge tests
• Student study guides, revision quizzes, and practice tests
• Product, policy, compliance, and onboarding assessments
• Question bank generation for educational platforms

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
topic	String	Basic Python programming concepts	The subject of the quiz. Specific topics produce better questions.
total_questions	Integer	10	Total number of questions to generate. Min: 1, max: 100.
multiple_choice_count	Integer	7	Number of multiple-choice questions. The remaining questions are short-answer.
difficulty	Select	medium	Choose easy, medium, or hard.
quality_tier	Select	standard	Choose standard for cost-effective generation or premium for higher-accuracy specialist topics.

Example Input

{
  "topic": "The causes and key events of World War I",
  "total_questions": 20,
  "multiple_choice_count": 14,
  "difficulty": "hard",
  "quality_tier": "premium"
}

Output

Each dataset item is one quiz question. Multiple-choice records include answer options and a correct answer. Short-answer records include an ideal answer.

Multiple-Choice Example

{
  "questionNumber": 1,
  "type": "multiple_choice",
  "question": "Which event directly triggered the outbreak of World War I?",
  "options": [
    "The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand",
    "The sinking of the Lusitania",
    "The invasion of Poland",
    "The fall of the Ottoman Empire"
  ],
  "correctAnswer": "The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand",
  "idealAnswer": null,
  "explanation": "The assassination in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 triggered a chain of diplomatic crises that led to the outbreak of World War I.",
  "metaTopic": "The causes and key events of World War I",
  "metaQualityTier": "premium",
  "metaDifficulty": "hard",
  "metaModel": "google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite",
  "metaGeneratedAt": "2026-05-12T15:02:37.264739+00:00"
}

Short-Answer Example

{
  "questionNumber": 2,
  "type": "short_answer",
  "question": "What alliance opposed the Triple Alliance before World War I?",
  "options": null,
  "correctAnswer": null,
  "idealAnswer": "The Triple Entente, made up of France, Russia, and Great Britain.",
  "explanation": "The Triple Entente aligned France, Russia, and Great Britain against the Central Powers.",
  "metaTopic": "The causes and key events of World War I",
  "metaQualityTier": "premium",
  "metaDifficulty": "hard",
  "metaModel": "google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite",
  "metaGeneratedAt": "2026-05-12T15:02:37.264739+00:00"
}

Output Fields

Field	Description
questionNumber	The question's position in the generated quiz.
type	multiple_choice or short_answer.
question	The generated question text.
options	Four answer options for multiple-choice questions, otherwise null.
correctAnswer	Correct option text for multiple-choice questions, otherwise null.
idealAnswer	Suggested answer for short-answer questions, otherwise null.
explanation	Educational explanation for the answer.
metaTopic	Topic used for the run.
metaQualityTier	standard or premium.
metaDifficulty	easy, medium, or hard.
metaModel	AI model used for generation.
metaGeneratedAt	UTC timestamp for the generation run.

How To Run It

Open the Actor on Apify, enter a topic, choose how many questions you want, select the difficulty and quality tier, then start the run. When the run finishes, download the dataset or connect it to your workflow through the Apify API.

For best results, use a clear and specific topic. For example, use "Newton's laws of motion for high school physics" instead of just "science".

Python API Example

Install the Apify API client:

$pip install apify-client

Run the Actor and fetch the generated quiz questions:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN")

run_input = {
    "topic": "Basic Python programming concepts",
    "total_questions": 10,
    "multiple_choice_count": 7,
    "difficulty": "medium",
    "quality_tier": "standard",
}

run = client.actor("thescrapelab/Apify-Quiz-Generator").call(run_input=run_input)

dataset_id = run["defaultDatasetId"]
items = client.dataset(dataset_id).list_items().items

for item in items:
    print(item["question"])
    if item["type"] == "multiple_choice":
        print("Options:", item["options"])
        print("Correct answer:", item["correctAnswer"])
    else:
        print("Ideal answer:", item["idealAnswer"])
    print("Explanation:", item["explanation"])
    print()

Difficulty Guide

Difficulty	Best For	What To Expect
easy	Beginners, introductions, broad review	Well-known facts and clearly incorrect distractors.
medium	Course checks, revision quizzes, general assessments	Specific knowledge with more plausible distractors.
hard	Expert quizzes, specialist domains, advanced learners	Niche details, precise facts, and harder-to-eliminate distractors.

Quality Tiers

Tier	Best For
standard	General quiz generation, high-volume question sets, cost-sensitive workflows.
premium	Technical, academic, specialist, or higher-stakes question generation where accuracy matters more. Premium adds a small per-question charge.

Tips For Better Quiz Results

• Use specific topics, audiences, and scope, such as "introductory SQL joins for data analysts".
• Start with 10 questions to review style and difficulty before generating a larger question bank.
• Use a 70/30 multiple-choice to short-answer split for most learning quizzes.
• Choose hard plus premium for technical, academic, or expert-level quizzes.
• Review AI-generated content before using it in high-stakes exams, compliance programs, medical training, or legal training.

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