2. How many years after Mustafa's death did the narrator go to work at the Department of Education in Khartoum?
(a) Two years.
(b) One year.
(c) Three years.
(d) Four years.

3. How did Jean Morris end her life?
(a) She shot herself.
(b) She gassed herself.
(c) She took a fatal dose of medicines.
(d) She hung herself.

4. How does the narrator know about the legendary flooding of the Nile?
(a) His father told him.
(b) Mustafa told him.
(c) His mother told him.
(d) He read about it.

5. What is the narrator's response to the presumption about Mustafa?
(a) That he was a millionaire.
(b) That he's dead.
(c) That he was an intelligent professor.
(d) That he was happily married.

6. Who did Bint Mazjoub tell stories of?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her siblings.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her husbands.

7. What else does the man on the train talk to the narrator about?
(a) His career with the army.
(b) The weather.
(c) The narrator's career.
(d) His career with the government.

8. In what has the narrator earned a doctorate?
(a) Literature.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Law.
(d) Engineering.

9. What had instructions about what to do in the event of Mustafa's death?
(a) A diary.
(b) A letter.
(c) A testament.
(d) A postcard.

10. What was the name of the college Mustafa went to in the Sudan?
(a) Graham Collage.
(b) Khartoum Collage.
(c) Oxford Collage.
(d) Gordon Collage.

11. When were rooms added to the grandfather's house?
(a) When needed or when extra money was available.
(b) When other rooms were destroyed.
(c) Only when needed.
(d) Only when extra money was available.

12. What does the narrator do when he hears the story about Mustafa in the train?
(a) He smiles.
(b) He listens.
(c) He says he knew Mustafa as well.
(d) He says he doesn't know who Mustafa is.

13. How was Mustafa presented at his trial?
(a) As a young murderer.
(b) As a suicidal man.
(c) As an unintelligent student.
(d) As a young genius.

14. Who does the narrator visit a month after the conversation on the train?
(a) Some people from the University in Khartoum.
(b) Some people from the Department of Education.
(c) Some people from the University in Cairo.
(d) Some people from the Department of Agriculture.

15. What does the narrator hear about Mustafa during the conversation in the train?
(a) That he was a fair student.
(b) That he was a brilliant teacher.
(c) That he was the most brilliant student.
(d) That he killed many women.