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Which key details from "R.M.S. Titanic" best support the central idea that wealth was a determining factor in who survived?

Select the two correct answers.
"Colonel John Jacob Astor puts his young wife in a lifeboat, steps back, taps cigarette on fingernail: 'Goodbye, dearie; I’ll join you later.'"

"Many run and scramble aft, where hundreds are clinging above the silent screws on the great uptilted stern.”

"'The 'Millionaires’ Special' leaves the ship—boat No. 1, with a capacity of forty people, carries only Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon and ten others."

"Benjamin Guggenheim, in evening clothes, smiles and says, 'We’ve dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.'"

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Yeah it's c and d because the social hierarchy
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I’m pretty sure it’s C. and D. Hope I helped
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