Shape Buttons - Include in Quiz?

Is it possible to have a Shape Button act as a normal button and get a reporting tab and the option to "Include in Quiz?"
I have a number of shape buttons I would like to use for scoring purposes but there doesn't seem to be a way to get them to advance the score like a normal button.
Thank you.

Let's see if I can explain my thought process.
I have a slide set up with four "answer" buttons (A-D). I want the students to get a variable number of points depending on how many buttons they have clicked before getting the correct answer. So, if they get it right the first time they get 3 points. The second time, 2 points, etc.
I've done this in an advanced action that checks their answer and the number of buttons they have clicked and then shows a Shape Button that is "Included in Quiz" for the correct number of points the user has scored. So I have four of these Shape Buttons - each adding a different number of points to the score from 0-3.
This worked GREAT on a single slide, but I'd like to do this 5 times in one exercise and I realized when I duplicated the slide that all of the buttons were copied and renamed. That means I have to update all of my advanced actions.
Because you cannot nest actions, I have 4 set up (one for each answer button.) That was painful enough, but I got it to work.
But to do this for 5 slides means I would have 20 advanced actions that all do ESSENTIALLY the same thing. (Not being able to nest actions is silly.) I don't want to maintain that.
So I thought that if I could have those score-incrementing buttons available on all slides through the presentation, they could keep adding the slide's results to the Quiz score, and I could refer to them by name in my 4 advanced actions only. That's what I was trying to do.
My pain could be lessened by one of the two scenarios (neither of which, I'm learning, is possible):
Nesting actions
Incrementing the Score as part of an Advanced Action.
Is it possible to manually update the Score using JavaScript? That was going to be my next trial but I was so frustrated last night that I just walked away.
Rob

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http://blog.lilybiri.com/question-question-slides-in-captivate
http://blog.lilybiri.com/question-question-slides-part-2
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