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Basically what I want to achieve is something like this.

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Well i want to enumerate my questions but I want to have two boxes one for true and one for false also. So I need a third column next to the existing one for False. Also, I want the boxes to be a little smaller.(I don't think that this would be a problem to minimize the boxes). The problem is that I don't know how to achieve such a result. I have searched through TeX Stack Exchange and I have not come up with something similar and I want such a result for a book I am writing.

Any help is appreciated.

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    surely you don't need tikz, just something like \hfill\fbox{ } \fbox{ } ? Commented Dec 15, 2015 at 12:20

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One could also use tabular or tabularx.

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{tabularx} \newcounter{abc} \renewcommand{\theabc}{\stepcounter{abc}\alph{abc}} \newcommand{\answerbox}{\fbox{\phantom{M}}} \begin{document} \def\arraystretch{2}% increase vertical spacing \noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cXcc} & & T & F\\ (\theabc) & Fungi depend on plants and animals for food & \answerbox & \answerbox\\ (\theabc) & Ferns and mold are fungi because the reproduce from spores & \answerbox & \answerbox\\ (\theabc) & Bacteria are harmful to our body & \answerbox & \answerbox\\ (\theabc) & Yeast is a tiny living thing & \answerbox & \answerbox \end{tabularx} \end{document}

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At this point you might consider a further simplification of the form

\newcommand{\tfq}[1]% #1 = question {\stepcounter{abc}(\alph{abc}) & #1 & \answerbox & \answerbox}
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  • I am accepting this as it is simpler than the above.Thank you! Commented Dec 15, 2015 at 20:06
  • @Tolaso: Simpler is relative -- in this solution you have to add the answer boxes manually each time ;-) Commented Dec 16, 2015 at 5:07
  • Yes, I know that, but for the purpose I want it (in the book that I write) I will have to do it manually anyway. But I upvoted your answer as well. :) Commented Dec 17, 2015 at 9:56
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An automated approach:

Add all questions to expl3 seq variable and show them afterwards using \seq_map_inline, filling with the boxes. 

\documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{enumitem} \usepackage{xparse} \ExplSyntaxOn \seq_new:N \l_tolaso_question_seq \NewDocumentCommand{\AddQuestions}{m}{% \seq_set_split:Nnn \l_tolaso_question_seq {,} {#1}% } \NewDocumentCommand{\ShowQuestions}{}{% \begin{enumerate}[label={(\alph*)}] \seq_map_inline:Nn \l_tolaso_question_seq { \item ##1 \hfill \fbox{ }\hskip20pt \fbox{ }} \end{enumerate} } \ExplSyntaxOff \begin{document} \AddQuestions{Fungi,Other Fungi are,Bacteria are harmful to our body, Virus, Brontosaurs were large} \ShowQuestions \end{document}

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