Yeah, another decent alternative I've seen was a test with a few multiple choice questions where each question needed quite a bit of reasoning and where you had

Yeah, another decent alternative I've seen was a test with a few multiple choice questions where each question needed quite a bit of reasoning and where you had to give the reasoning to get the points. The multiple choice question was a way for the teacher to quickly know if you had the correct answer and for the student to verify their answer against possible answers and see if they might have made a mistake but the teacher would still need to review the half a page of reasoning for each question. It can be done decently but it's much easier to write and much more common to see bad multiple choice questions.