Knowledge construction is expensive for Computer Assisted Assessment. When setting exercise questions,
teachers use Test Makers to construct Question Banks. The addition of Automatic Generation to assessment
applications decreases the time spent on constructing examination papers. In this article, we present
ArikIturri, an Automatic Question Generator for Basque language test questions, which is independent from
the test assessment application that uses it. The information source for this question generator consists
of linguistically analysed real corpora, represented in XML mark-up language. ArikIturri makes use of NLP
tools. The influence of the robustness of those tools and the used corpora is highlighted in the article.
We have proved the vi-ability of ArikIturri when constructing fill-in-the-blank, word formation, multiple
choice, and error correction question types. In the evaluation of this automatic generator, we have
obtained positive results as regards the generation process and its usefulness.