Read the excerpt from chapter 7 of Night.Meir Katz remained on the train. The last day had been the most lethal. We had been a hundred or so in this wagon. Twelve of us left it. Among them, my father and myself.

The wagon held about a hundred people, but only twelve were still alive at the end of the journey. That shows that very few survived the horrific train ride, which is choice A. The passage says the author and his father were among the survivors, but it does not say they were entirely safe.

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