# Anyone tried Elixir Quiz?

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Because that function takes a list (in the flashcard example, a charlist) as an argument, not a String, thus to call it from Elixir, it must be called as `:erlang.list_to_atom('Erlang')` (with single-quotes, rather than double-quotes).

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