Imagine a situation in which a senior student encounters an underclassman who has recently won a coveted role in the school play for which they both auditioned. Create a stream-of-consciousness paragraph that presents the thoughts, memories, and insights of one of the two students as they walk toward each other in the hallway.

Probably too late, but I just read the selection. It's A, because the "fight or flight response" in the passage comes down to your boss asking to see you in his office. Of course, also in the passage, this is a false alarm. However, it is A because it activated, and as in the passage stated it's activating the same power your "stone age ancestors" used to fight sabre-tooth tigers.