I guess im not understanding what you guys are trying to say, I have
some coding skills but I don't understand a lot of it so far. I
decided to post what I have so far to see if you can better see my
problem. As it is, compiling it returns that I need to catch
FileNotFound exceptions on the qNumber method when I call it on num.
I know you can use some sort of try/catch code to fix this but so far
I havent gotten that to work.

public class FileIn
{
    private static String questionFile=null;
    private static String answerFile=null;
    private static int num=qNumber();
    private static int qnum=0;
    private static int anum=0;
    //String array variables to hold questions and answers
    static String[] questions=new String[num];
    static String[] answers=new String[num*5];
    public FileIn(String qF, String aF)throws FileNotFoundException,
IOException
    {
        questionFile=qF;
        answerFile=aF;
        //BufferedReader objects that read the question and answer files
        BufferedReader question= new BufferedReader(new
FileReader(questionFile));
        BufferedReader answer=new BufferedReader(new
FileReader(answerFile));
        //If statement to find the number of questions and deposit into an
int variable, num
        if(question!=null)
        {
            BufferedReader Q= new BufferedReader(new FileReader(questionFile));
            String numQ=null;
            numQ=Q.readLine();
            while(numQ!=null)
            {
            num++;
            numQ=Q.readLine();
            }
        }
        //Beginning to read in Questions and Answers
        int x=0, y=0;
        String Qu=null;
        String An=null;
        StringTokenizer Ans;
        Qu=question.readLine();
        An=question.readLine();
        while(Qu!=null)
        {
            questions[x]=Qu;
            x++;
        }
        while(An!=null)
        {
            answers[y]=An;
            y++;
        }
    }
    //Method to find the number of questions and deposit into an int
variable, num
    public static int qNumber()throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
    {
        int n=0;
        BufferedReader Q= new BufferedReader(new FileReader(questionFile));
        String numQ=null;
        numQ=Q.readLine();
        while(numQ!=null)
        {
        n++;
        numQ=Q.readLine();
        }
        return(n);
    }
    //Method to return the question numbered by the qnum variable
    public String getQuestion()
    {
        qnum++;
        return(questions[qnum-1]);
    }
}