Now I'm not necessarily interested in the answer, but more if I'm thinking about this problem in the correct way. After chewing on this issue for a week, I'm thinking along the lines of hashes being more appropriate since a quiz question can be associated with an answer. Any advice please?

Congratulations, your journey has begun

This is how you should think about it

first Think of verbs 

StartQuiz( $quizfile, $userfile );
...
sub StartQuiz {
    my( $quizfile, $userfile ) = @_;
    for my $question ( Questions( $quizfile ) ){
          my $answer = GetAnswer( $question );
          SaveAnswer( $userfile, $question, $answer );
    }
}

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first Think of verbs

Write a few of these loops before thinking about data structures

More ideas

Term::Interact prompting loop idea, https://metacpan.org/source/TOBYINK/Ask-0.007/examples/multiple-choice.pl 

my $answer = single_choice(
        text    => "If a=1, b=2. What is a+b?",
        choices => [
                [ A => 12 ],
                [ B => 3  ],
                [ C => 2  ],
                [ D => 42 ],
                [ E => "Fish" ],
        ],
);

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https://metacpan.org/source/TOBYINK/Ask-0.007/examples/synopsis.pl
if ($ask->question(text => "Are you happy?")
and $ask->question(text => "Do you know it?")
and $ask->question(text => "Really want to show it?")) {
        $ask->info(text => "Then clap your hands!");
}

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In reply to Re: How could I create a command line quiz? by Anonymous Monk
in thread How could I create a command line quiz? by yasser

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