Creating interactive quizzes for use in InDesign CS6 DPS ebooks

Hi
Are there any Adobe products that I can use to create interactive quizzes that I can just drop into InDesign when producing ebook apps using the DPS. We’ve tried creating the quizzes in Adobe Presenter and Captivate, but couldn’t get the output to work in InDesign.
Ideally, I'm looking for a quiz generator that has a choice of question types and a input interface to enter the question details, much like that found in Adobe Presenter.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks

Neil,
I'm not a Captivate user but I downloaded the trial version, built a simple quiz and published it as per James’s instructions. I unchecked the box so that the timeline isn’t shown during the quiz. Since I’m not really familiar with Captivate, this might seem like a stupid question. Is there a way of not showing the initial screen with the play button and timeline at the bottom, so that the user would just see the first slide of the quiz in the publication? I also see the timeline on the Results slide. Can I turn that off? Or should I be posting this question on the Captivate forum?!
Thanks,
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