Cannot reattempt quiz slides

Hi
I am working on a project using captivate 5. I have created some inline tests without any scoring. When I publish the course, I am able to attempt the question and then continue to the next screen. But when I click the back button to attempt the question or to visit the previous page, the question slide is in disabled mode. As I dont have any back button on the question slide its a dead end as I cant navigate.
To avoid this problem I tried linking the back button of the page after the question slide to the slide before the question slide. But this works ony for mutiple choice question slides. Wherever there is Fill in the Blanks question it is in disabled mode.
How do I tackle this. Is there any setting in Captivate 5 which will not deactivate the questions once it is attempted.

You can set any quiz question slide to have multiple attempts, so that a user can try several times until they get it correct. But by default, Captivate's behaviour is that, regardless of the number of attempts you have set for the question, if you move away from that question slide after making an attempt, then the answer is locked in, correct or incorrect as it may be.
You can also set a number of attempts for the overall quiz, and have the option to add a Retake Quiz button to the Quiz Results slide so that users can try to pass is on a subsequent attempt. But by clicking the Retake Quiz button all answers are reverted to their initial state and the user's score is set back to zero again.
The Back, Skip, Clear, and Submit buttons found on question slides are not really programmable for very sophisticated navigation. And Captivate also prevents you from adding other interactive buttons or clickboxes to a question slide. However the static button widget that comes with Captivate's widget collection can often be used as a workaround.

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