Creating and submitting forms in embedded PDF, can I submit data to a js function on the parent HTML

I am trying to create an interactive PDF form for use in an educational activity. It is basically in the form of a lecure with quiz questions in the mix. I see how to create a drop down list or select list in Acrobat pro, and I see how to either submit a form or execute a javascript when an item is selected.
What I want to do is submit the response that the user has selected and process that on the server or send the data to a js fuinction on the parent page for processing. The latter option would be preferred. I do not want to display the response in the browser, which is what seems to happen if you use the form submit option. The data that I am interested in is just the form name and the export value, which I can configure when I create the form. Initially, this would probably be just a 0 or 1 for incorrect or correct. So I really just need 2 data, maybe 3 data values. The form name, the 0 or 1, and the name of the pdf document. I am embedding the PDF document as an object in a PHP/HTML page. I can make a javascript function on the parent page that processes the data. I am writing the responses to a MySQL server that has the users name (account system on the parent page), and I would then record the PDF page name, the field name (which question) and the response (0 or 1).
Seems like it should not be that hard, but I am not to familar with Javascript scripting within a PDF document and how that works.
Thanks.

You should just set up the form to submit directly to the server from the PDF. The server can then return an essentially empty response (status code 204 no content).

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