Following a stroke, Harriet has impaired sense of taste on one side of the tip of her tongue, indicating the part of her brain that was affected must communicate with the ________ nerve.

A. abducens
B. vagus
C. facial
D. glossopharyngeal
E. trigeminal


Answer: C

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