Look at these three questions and their answers:
1. Are you a student? Yes, I am.
2. When's your birthday? In September.
3. Is Tom sixteen or seventeen? He's seventeen.
There are three kinds of questions:
1. 'Yes/no questions': the first word is a verb or auxiliary and the answer is 'yes' or 'no'.
2. 'Information questions' or 'wh- questions': they begin with a question word and the answer gives information that refers to time (when), place (where), reason (why), etc.
3. 'Choice questions': the answer is a part of the question.
Look at this chart for more examples.
Now try this quiz and also this one.