Question slides distributed throughout CP7 project

I'd like to know if it is possible to have a Captivate 7 project made up of a number of content slides with pre-test question slides being used at various different points of the course?
At the moment when I add more than one pretest question slide they are all grouped together. The list below might help explain what I need to acheive. The reason I'm using pre-test question slides is that I don't want the results to be mixed in with the Graded questions at the end of the course.
Content slide
Content slide
Content slide
Content slide
Pretest question slide
Pretest question slide
Pretest question slide
Pretest question slide
Pretest question slide
Content slide
Content slide
Content slide
Pretest question slide
Content slide
Content slide
Graded question slide
Graded question slide
Graded question slide
Graded question slide
Graded question slide
Content slide
As always any advice is gratefully received. Thanks.

Where I am using prestest question slides I am doing so simply to make use of the built-in question-types in Captivate, specifically the MCQ, Matching and FIB.
In this example I require feedback to be given after each individual question (incorrect, correct, try again - 2 attempts allowed per question).
The overall concept is to provide 2-3 content screens that teach the information before displaying a question slide to re-enforce what has just been taught. Once the user has tried the question and received basic feedback they continue to the next content slide.
All would be solved if I could place the built-in question slides wherever I want but by the sound of it this isn't possible unfortunately.
Is it possible to customise a survey question slide to displaycustom feedback (correct/incorrect) using advanced actions?

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