If you were a physician, we kindly request your honest responses to the following multiple-choice question.

Here is the question: A 7-month old boy, born to immigrant parents from Greece, presents to the hospital with pallor and abdominal distention. His parents note that they recently moved into an old apartment building and have been concerned about their son's exposure to chipped paint from the walls. On physical exam, the patient is found to have hepatosplenomegaly and frontal skull bossing. Hemoglobin electrophoresis reveals markedly increased HbF and HbA2 levels. What would be the most likely findings on a peripheral blood smear? The possible answer options are: A. Basophilic stippling of erythrocytes, B. Microcytosis and hypochromasia of erythrocytes, C. Schistocytes and normocytic erythrocytes, D. Sickling of erythrocytes

which answer is correct?