Please help! slide layer finishes before activity is completed

Thank you for your quick responses.  I am on a timeline and really appreciate your feedback.  I think there is something going on with the triggers.  So, here is see from this end....

#1.  I have to leave the pauses on the timelines. It is one of the ways we give learners the ability to control when a slide starts and the narration does not talk over the screen reader.

#2.  I need the triggers to allow the learner to see feedback (green check marks).  I thought about making a conditional button to go back to the base slide, like EricSchaffer-d1 suggested.  The issue with that is A.  I have many activities with slide layers for additional information across a series of 6 courses and this will be the only one with this button.  I would prefer to use a solution that did not contain another button to trigger back AND whenever I add an additional condition to get back to the base slide, it messes up the purple arrow (which is programmed with variables) that indicate the slide is finished and the learner can click the next button.  

#3.  I have three slides exactly like this one.  Different content... but the same interaction.

Knowing that information, what else would you recommend?