As You Are Listening to a Lecture, Workers Are Repairing

Multiple Choice

As you are listening to a lecture, workers are repairing a wall just outside your classroom. Throughout the class, you find yourself coughing and sneezing because of the dust and fumes in the air. Which brain structure controls such vital reflexes as sneezing, coughing, and swallowing?

A) the corpus callosum
B) the cerebellum
C) the medulla
D) the thalamus