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During a BIO 3350 lecture, you observe the professor drop a black pen

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During a BIO 3350 lecture, you observe the professor drop a black pen. The black pen is dropping right in the left part of your visual field. Answer the following questions (point form is allowed):

A) Describe the pathways by which information from both eyes is relayed from the retina to the visual cortex. You do not have to describe visual processing within the retina (i.e. photoreceptors, bipolar cells, etc). 

B) Describe how is information processed in the visual cortex to detect the exact orientation of the black pen and its direction of movement

C) How is the information from both eyes processed in the visual cortex and integrated to detect the moving produce a binocular view of the pen?