At the bottom of each question page in a lesson, Maximum number of answers determines the maximum number of choices that each question can have. For example, if this were set to 4, each question could have at most four choices: a, b, c, and d.
If each answer sends the student to a different page, the number of answers is also the number of branches possible. Set this to the highest number of answers that any of your questions will have. After creating question pages, you can increase or decrease this setting without affecting the questions that you have already created.