Question mark after quoted sentences that are part of overall question

[Alice Clark]

    Q    Other than your statements, is there any other person that can say:  "Oh, yeah, my conversations were listened to"?

or this where there is an overall question which includes several quoted questions, does anybody do anything different besides eliminate the ending punctuation for last sentence and use quotes and a question mark?

    Q    Did you ever say:  "Hey, hear that?  Did you hear something?  Did you hear a click"?

[Jody Rake]

If I'm following you, I can tell you what the technical writer answer is. If the quoted material within the question is itself a question, put question mark first, then quotes. If the quoted material within a question is not a question, quotes first then question mark. I hope that helps.

[Alice Clark]

Testimony punctuation sort of gets outside basic rules sometimes, but you're right that that is the basic rule.