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On the train, Madame Shäcter says she sees?

1) A long fence.
2) Water.
3) A fire.
4) Her family.

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Final answer:

The question is about a scene from Elie Wiesel's 'Night.' Madame Schäcter hallucinates a fire, representing a premonition of the crematoria fires in the Holocaust. Option 3

Step-by-step explanation:

The question refers to a scene from Elie Wiesel's book Night, which is a work of literature about the author's experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust.

In that scene, Madame Schäcter, a Jewish deportee on the train to Auschwitz, has a terrifying hallucination in which she repeatedly screams that she sees a fire. Her vision is symbolic of the crematoria fires at the concentration camps, which she seems to foresee, and causes panic among the other prisoners.

So Option 3.

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