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Building Class Hierarchies with Inheritance in Python

Inheritance commonly gets a bad reputation and is fairly easy to misuse, but when building a system that requires multiple variations of the same general concept, then it is the right tool for the job. Knowing when and how to use inheritance is important for being the most productive object-oriented programmer that you can be. In this hands-on lab, you'll be building the class hierarchy for question types used in a quiz system. By completing this lab, you'll have demonstrated that you know how to factor class logic across a tree of classes to minimize repeated code and leverage how inheritance allows you to share logic.

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Level

Advanced

Duration

1h 15m

Published

Mar 26, 2021

Challenge

Implement the Base Question Class
The base Question class is the class for multiple-choice, single answer questions. For this class to meet the business requirements, it will need to have the proper initialization, a select method, a grade method, and a customized __str__ method. The string output should work by printing the following:
```
[QUESTION_TEXT]

1. [OPTION]
2. [OPTION]
3. [OPTION]
4. [OPTION]
```
Challenge

Create the TrueFalseQuestion Class by Subclassing Question
When looking at the TrueFalseQuestion class, we want to simplify the initialization since the options are obvious, and we'd also like to customize the printed representation so that it starts with True/False:, unless the question text provided already begins with the words "True" or "False" (ignoring case). Here's what the output would look like:
```
True/False: [QUESTION_TEXT]

1. [True or False (randomized order)]
2. [Opposite of option 1.]
```
Challenge

Create the MultipleSelectQuestion Class by Subclassing Question
The biggest difference between a multiple-choice, multiple correct answer question type and the standard multiple choice question type is that the correct_choice and selected_answer attributes need to work with a list of strings instead of a single string. Changing how those two things operate will potentially require adjusting how select and grade work.

Additionally, the number of correct answers should be included in the printed output for a MultipleSelectQuestion. Here's an example with three correct answers:
```
[QUESTION_TEXT] (select 3)

1. [OPTION]
2. [OPTION]
3. [OPTION]
4. [OPTION]
5. [OPTION]
```

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