It is significant because it literally makes it so that all the questions, answers, and pictures show up when they should. If it were not for the index, there would be no more than one question, and it would be harder to make all the pictures and answers correspond.
2. Describe how parallel lists were used in this app. Why was the parallel structure of the lists necessary?
It was necessary because we had to make the answers, images, and questions correspond. We did this by lining up all of the corresponding images, answers, and questions on the same line relative to each list so that the program could easily identify them.