What, According to the Chapter, Is the Essence of the Paradox

Multiple Choice

What, according to the chapter, is the essence of the paradox in Schrödinger's cat paradox?

A) Opening the box (and thus observing the cat) might kill it, contrary to our experience of reality.
B) The cat, though it should be described by quantum mechanics, never displays the features of a superposition state, like microscopic systems do.
C) The cat being alive or being dead are not mutually exclusive possibilities, contrary to what we think.
D) Human consciousness is necessary to collapse the cat's state to being alive or dead.
E) Something else (explain) .