Problem with multiline string in userform - excel

I am having a issue with multiline stings in a userform.
When a user selects a option, the code checks if the selected answer matches the correct answer and then shows if right or wrong. But in either case the code says it is wrong.
Example of a option is:
If you see the string, brush it off sideways
Place icepack/cold flannel to reduce swelling
Elevate area to reduce bloodflow
Private Sub OptionButton1_Click()
rowNum = Selection.Row - Selection.ListObject.Range.Row
DeclareVars
Column = examtable.ListColumns("Right ans").DataBodyRange(rowNum)
CorrectAns = examtable.ListColumns("Right ans").DataBodyRange(rowNum).Offset(0, Column)
RightWrong.Visible = True
If OptionButton1.Caption = CorrectAns Then
RightWrong.BackColor = &HFF00&
RightWrong.Caption = "Right"
Else
RightWrong.BackColor = &HFF&
RightWrong.Caption = "Wrong"
End If
End Sub
What i am expecting is that if correct, shows right, or wrong if incorrect

If I understand correctly you have multiple option buttons below one another? Option button one will always have the same caption. If it is selected it can become true (indicated by the black dot), but the caption will not change.
Lets say it looks like this
two option buttons
Then the upper is called OptionButton1, the lower OptionButton2.
You can check
If OptionButton1 then
RightWrong.BackColor = &HFF00&
RightWrong.Caption = "Right"
Else
RightWrong.BackColor = &HFF&
RightWrong.Caption = "Wrong"
End if
You could use a combobox (these are the drop down menus).
You could populate it with an array of the strings you want to test and ask if the answers concur.
When loading the user form use
Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
ComboBox1.list = Array("brush it off sideways", "Place icepack/cold flannel to reduce swelling", "Elevate area to reduce bloodflow")
End Sub
this will look as followed
The user form with the list open
Then you can say combobox.value = CorrectAns

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The If cbNama.ListCount = 1 Then cbNama.ListIndex = 0 Else cbNama.DropDown line is my modification, the original I found in the internet is just cbNama.DropDown.
I modified that line, because I thought with that IF conditon, it won't show the drop-down list if the list count of the combo box is only one. Yet it still show the drop-down list with that one item only, just like as if in the original code which has no IF condition.
Below is the example of what I mean :
At the time the combobox has only one item, the cbNama.ListIndex = 0 trigger the cbNama_Click sub. But the combobox still show the drop-down list, highlighted with blue on that one item.
My question:
How to prevent it showing the drop-down list when there is only one item?
Any kind of response would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advanced.
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I have the code spit out a warning box if both are selected. I think it would be easier to make it so that if one is checked the other will automatically uncheck.
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Are you sure you can't use check boxes?

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