Read this passage.

In this excerpt, Eliezer and his father have decided to be
evacuated with the other prisoners rather than stay behind at the
hospital in Buna.

“I learned after the war the fate of those who had stayed in the hospital. They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation.”


Which statement best describes the effect of Wiesel’s choice to include the excerpt in Night?

• It foreshadows that Eliezer and his father made the wrong decision and makes his father’s death more tragic.

• It explains the fate of the man whose bed was next to Eliezer’s in the hospital, which otherwise readers would have never known.

• It shows that Eliezer and his father’s diminished faith in God caused them to make a tragic decision.

• It evokes sympathy for those who stayed in the hospital because they had to wait two days to be evacuated.