Placing the Review button UNDER the Retake button is (as Lieve states) a well-known approach that avoids learners accidentally clicking the wrong button because the names are very similar. It also enforces the behaviour that the learner cannot Review the Quiz until either they have used up all attempts or they have passed (because in both cases the Retake Quiz button will not appear).
The idea I was proposing was that if the learner got to the end of the quiz and scored very low (e.g less than 50%) then they probably should NOT be given the option of just Retaking the Quiz because they do not seem to have absorbed the content. They may have just been browsing the content and not really learning. In such a case, I would be wanting them to relaunch the entire module and do it more thoroughly.
But although you could have a Conditional Advanced Action on the Quiz Result slide that detected their score percentage from the System Variables and show them a message on the slide that suggested they needed to relaunch the module there's no way to dynamically control whether or not the Retake or Review buttons are present with Advanced Actions. Lieve has a useful workaround where you 'hide' the buttons by turning off their text and fill to hide their location. But their hit area remains active and if the learner knows where to click they would still work.
Clicking the Retake Quiz button normally just takes you back to the very first Quiz Question. But if you set a button to report to the quiz on an earlier slide, then THAT becomes part of the quiz and clicking Retake Quiz will send you back there instead of the first quiz question. So if that button is at the start of the content section then the learner would be dropped in at that point with the quiz reset to zero and the ability for them to review the content first. Then it becomes a question of how you want this all to work. You could have conditional actions that made the decision (based on the learners score) as to whether or not they should be left on that slide or jumped over to the first Quiz question. Captivate allows you to do any of this and more if you know how to use it.
I seem to remember there was also a hack that someone found and explained in a Forum thread a year or more ago where they were able to trigger the Retake Quiz behaviour without clicking the Retake Quiz button itself. They were able to reset the quiz and give another attempt. But I cannot remember where to find that thread. Maybe someone else does.
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