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qz is a quiz program written in Perl, which therefore runs on Macs, Unix systems, VMS systems and even DOS PCs. I wrote it to help me study Scrabble words, but it's flexible enough to be used for many other applications. You can configure qz to concentrate on questions that you have historically had difficulty, questions that you haven't seen in a long time, questions randomly drawn according to a dynamic difficulty estimate, or questions that you've answered incorrectly recently. It doesn't have a pretty user interface though -- if that's a must for you, then try Zyzzyva.
What's Available
help
step-by-step instructions on how to get started with qz
qz.pl
the quiz script itself
sample.qz
a sample quiz script
notes.txt
3 MB annotation file for quiz answers
quiz files
Various quiz files of interest to Scrabble players
history
a change log, in case you're wondering what's new in the latest rev
update.pl
a script to convert version one quiz files to version two files
If you haven't configured your browser to download Perl or qz files correctly, some of these files may be garbled. You can also download copies of these files that are identified as text files, and then rename them: qz.pl, sample.txt, update.txt.