ORM Database design for quiz website

Question

I am trying to learn ORM and better structuring a database. I am working on a simply quiz web app to try to learn the relationships between tables. Am I on the right track here?

Down below are my tables. And I was thinking like this:

• Question has one answer.
• Answer belongs to many questions.
• Question has many alternatives.
• Alternatives belongs to many questions.

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The tables

Question

• ID
• Question

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Answer

• ID
• Answer

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Alternatives

• ID
• Alternative

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QuestionAlternative

• QuestionID
• AlternativeID

Answer 1

Consider a data model something like this:

You have a list of questions, each of which has zero, one or more offered options (possible answers). For each question, a user enters an answer. This answer may refer to a specific OPTION if applicable, or it could contain some kind of free-form information in the ANSWER table itself.