How to make a timer in tests through a bot in Telegram?

Question

Python

There is a small problem. I'm sitting puzzling over how you can add a timer to the questions in the test in the realities of the Telegram API. The only thing that comes to mind is the parallel launch of the timer function with the banal time.sleep(), which, after the time has elapsed, will simply skip the question. There are no more ideas. Can eat more normal methods of creation of the timer in these realities?

I am attaching the code of how the question test works for me.

if call.data == 'q1':
        ccAnswer = types.InlineKeyboardMarkup(row_width=4)
        asnwer1 = types.InlineKeyboardButton(text="ответ1", callback_data="qa1")
        asnwer2 = types.InlineKeyboardButton(text="ответ2", callback_data="qa2")
        asnwer3 = types.InlineKeyboardButton(text="ответ3", callback_data="qa3")
        asnwer4 = types.InlineKeyboardButton(text="ответ4", callback_data="qa4")
        ccAnswer.add(asnwer1, asnwer2, asnwer3, asnwer4)
        bot.edit_message_text(chat_id=call.message.chat.id, message_id=call.message.message_id,
                              text=' '
                                   '\nответ1'
                                   '\nответ2'
                                   '\nответ3'
                                   '\nответ4'
                              ,
                              reply_markup=ccAnswer)
    if call.data == 'qa1':
        answers_dict[call.from_user.id].append()
        call.data = 'q2'
    if call.data == 'qa2':
        answers_dict[call.from_user.id].append()
        call.data = 'q2'
    if call.data == 'qa3':
        answers_dict[call.from_user.id].append()
        call.data = 'q2'
    if call.data == 'qa4':
        answers_dict[call.from_user.id].append()
        call.data = 'q2'