Should I use an interrogation mark in the following examples?
Did you know that…?
...in Finland, there is only 1 mandatory test, PISA, taken when children are 16 ?
...in Brazil an estimated one-quarter of children do not attend school?
...in the sub-Saharan, 11.07 million children leave school before finishing their primary
education ? In South and West Asia, that number reaches 13.54 million .
...in Cambodia, only an estimate of 45% of the students finishes elementary school ?
I would remove the interrogation mark (usually called a "question mark," in my dialect) at the end of "Did you know that...?", leaving only the interrogation marks at the ends of the list items.
When I read a list like this, I imagine the ellipses (... marks) as drops of glue that will be used to stick pieces of a sentence together. The pieces
Did you know that...
- ...in Brazil an estimated one-quarter of children do not attend school?
stick to each other
Did you know that ... in Brazil an estimated one-quarter of children do not attend school?
and become a complete sentence.
Did you know that in Brazil an estimated one-quarter of children do not attend school?
If there were a question mark at the end of "Did you know that...", the pieces wouldn't fit together correctly. The pieces
Did you know that...?
- ...in Brazil an estimated one-quarter of children do not attend school?
would try to stick to each other
Did you know that... ? ...in Brazil an estimated one-quarter of children do not attend school?
but the interrogation mark would be in the way, floating strangely in the middle of the sentence.
If you have derived the information from a specific source or sources, it is appropriate to put the information in quotations and cite your source(s).
