Question: What will happen if a static method in Java tries to directly access a non-static instance variable?

A) The code will compile successfully, and the instance variable will be accessed.
B) The code will compile, but the instance variable will always have its default value.
C) The code will fail to compile with a "non-static variable cannot be referenced from a static context" error.
D) The code will compile and throw a NullPointerException at runtime.