It's Midnight and You Are Alone in Your Room Studying

Multiple Choice

It's midnight and you are alone in your room studying. You hear a loud crash outside your room and your whole body reacts instantly. Your pupils dilate, your heart rate increases, your blood pressure rises, adrenaline surges through your body, and your senses sharpen as you begin anxiously looking for whatever caused the crash. These reactions are produced by the ________.

A) parasympathetic division
B) central nervous system
C) sympathetic division
D) somatic nervous system