Dear Hans,

Is there any simpler way to achieve this?

how is that supposed to work with multi-line items ?


I am sorry, I should explain more carefully.

This type of itemization usually needed to list the short answers of the multiple-choice questions.
Some problems are not well-composed, but you can see an example at the end of the following page. 

http://dugod1.tistory.com/archive/20120826 
http://blog.daum.net/_blog/BlogTypeView.do?blogid=0dl2J&articleno=153

Thank you.
Best regards,

Dalyoung