Assign points to quiz slides using Question Pools Manager

Is it possible to assign the points to be reported for a slide when using the Question Pools Manager?
If one slide, for example, has 10 points, and another slide has 5 points, when they are both added to a question pool, do their loose their original number of points and get assigned whatever number of points chosen when a random slide is added to the pool?
I hope someone can clarify. Thanks.

I just checked in Captivate 5 and it looks like the scoring is associated with the Question Pool slide, not the Question slide that gets randomly inserted.
If you're trying to achieve a result where the difficulty of the question matched the number of points awarded for getting it right, you might need to set up a number of question pools. E.g. one pool for easy questions, another for medium difficulty, and a third for really difficult ones. Assign 1 or 2 points as the default for the easy ones, maybe 5 for medium, and 10 points for hard ones.
This is what I do in fact.

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