Multiple choice with answers at the end of the chapter
Here's a bit of a hack using the endnotes
package. I tried to inline some comments.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{endnotes}
% Define two new counters for ease of using.
\newcounter{questionnumber}
\newcounter{choicenumber}[questionnumber]
% Formatting the counters, this is where you change how the counters appear.
\renewcommand*\thequestionnumber{\arabic{questionnumber}.}
\renewcommand*\thechoicenumber{\alph{choicenumber})}
% Define the \question and \choice commands to be similar to what is
% given in the OP
\newcommand*\question{\item}
\newcommand*\choice{\item}
% Here's a bit of a hack: \endnotetext stores the \meaning of the its argument
% in the endnotetext file, so the macros aren't expanded. I use \edef to fully
% expand the current \thechoicenumber, and use \expandafter to stuff it into
% the argument for \endnotetext. Suggestions for improvements are welcome!
\newcommand*\entreplace[1]{\endnotetext[\value{questionnumber}]{#1}}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\truechoice[1]{\item \protected@edef\currentcount{\thechoicenumber~~#1} \expandafter\entreplace\expandafter{\currentcount}}
\makeatother
% Define a choices environment, just a list basically.
\newenvironment{choices}{\begin{list}{\thechoicenumber}{\usecounter{choicenumber}}}{\end{list}}
% These are to set up the endnotes. The first makes the endnote marks look
% like the question numbering (as opposed to being in superscript). The second
% sets the endnotes heading to read "Answers".
\renewcommand*\makeenmark{\theenmark.~~}
\renewcommand*\notesname{Answers:}
\begin{document}
\begin{list}{\thequestionnumber}{\usecounter{questionnumber}}
\question Some question
\begin{choices}
\choice False choice
\choice Bad choice
\truechoice{This is true for no good reason} True choice.
\end{choices}
\question Who won the 2012 Presidential Election in US?
\begin{choices}
\choice Mitt Romney
\truechoice{Without even counting Florida} Barack Obama
\end{choices}
\end{list}
% Print the "answers"
\theendnotes
\end{document}
And here's the output:
Edit:
In response to zar's comment below, if we want the input syntax to be
\truechoice{Choice text}{Justification/commentary}
instead of
\truechoice{Justification/commentary} Choice text
one can change the definition to
\newcommand\truechoice[2]{\item #1 \protected@edef\currentcount{\thechoicenumber~~#2} \expandafter\entreplace\expandafter{\currentcount}}
But this way you have to put the choice text in braces, for example, you must write
\truechoice{True Choice!}{That choice was true for no good reason}
Edit 2: S.G. and zar noticed some problems with my abuse of the \edef
function. A more complicated, but functionally better hack is the following (I'm including the full file below for easy of copy-pasting)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{endnotes}
% Define two new counters for ease of using.
\newcounter{questionnumber}
\newcounter{choicenumber}[questionnumber]
% Formatting the counters, this is where you change how the counters
% appear.
\renewcommand*\thequestionnumber{\arabic{questionnumber}.}
\renewcommand*\thechoicenumber{\alph{choicenumber})}
% Define the \question and \choice commands to be similar to what is
% given in the OP
\newcommand*\question{\item}
\newcommand*\choice{\item}
% Here's a bit of a hack: \endnotetext stores the \meaning of the its argument
% in the endnotetext file, so the macros aren't expanded. I use \edef to fully
% expand the current \thechoicenumber, and use \expandafter to stuff it into
% the argument for \endnotetext. Suggestions for improvements are welcome!
\newcommand*\entreplace[1]{\endnotetext[\value{questionnumber}]{#1}}
\newcommand\truechoice[2]{\item #1 \edef\tempchoice{\thechoicenumber} \expandafter\def\expandafter\currentcount\expandafter{\tempchoice \ \ #2} \expandafter\entreplace\expandafter{\currentcount}}
% Define a choices environment, just a list basically.
\newenvironment{choices}{\begin{list}{\thechoicenumber}{\usecounter{choicenumber}}}{\end{list}}
% These are to set up the endnotes. The first makes the endnote marks look
% like the question numbering (as opposed to being in superscript). The second
% sets the endnotes heading to read "Answers".
\renewcommand*\makeenmark{\theenmark.~~}
\renewcommand*\notesname{Answers:}
\begin{document}
\begin{list}{\thequestionnumber}{\usecounter{questionnumber}}
\question Some question
\begin{choices}
\choice False choice
\choice Bad choice
\truechoice{True choice}{This is true for no good reason $1+1$. Let me
add more text. There should be four or five lines. Can I put displayed
math in here? \emph{test} \[ E = mc^2\] Some more text.}
\end{choices}
\end{list}
% Print the "answers"
\theendnotes
\end{document}
and this is what it outputs
which as one can see correctly handles the \emph
command and math (both displayed and inline) environments.
You could use the exsheets
package in combination with tasks
for this. It's purpose is to print the solutions of exercises in another part of the document. However, it was not designed with multiple choice tests in mind which means you'd have to type them twice:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{exsheets}
\usepackage{tasks}
% we could use `enumitem' for this (or...)
% but exsheets v0.4 provides a command to generate list-like
% environments
% this defines an environment {choices} that uses a square box as
% item symbol, \choice as command to start an item and uses 2 columns:
\NewTasks[style=multiplechoice]{choices}[\choice](2)
\newcommand*\correct{\PrintSolutionsTF{\checkedchoicebox}{\choicebox}}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Some chapter}
\section{Exercises}
\begin{question}
\begin{choices}
\choice First choice
\choice Second choice
\choice[\correct] Third choice
\choice Fourth choice
\end{choices}
\end{question}
\begin{solution}
\begin{choices}
\choice First choice
\choice Second choice
\choice[\correct] Third choice\\
This is the right choice because...
\choice Fourth choice
\end{choices}
\end{solution}
\begin{question}
\begin{choices}
\choice First choice
\choice[\correct] Second choice
\choice Third choice
\choice Fourth choice
\end{choices}
\end{question}
\begin{solution}
\begin{choices}
\choice First choice
\choice[\correct] Second choice\\
This is the right choice because...
\choice Third choice
\choice Fourth choice
\end{choices}
\end{solution}
\section{Solutions}
\printsolutions[chapter]
% similar for other chapters
\end{document}