On january 16, 1917, in a clear attempt to convince the mexican government to germany in the war, arthur zimmermann, the german foreign secretary, sent a telegram to count von bernstorff, the german ambassador in washington. the foreign secretary wanted to be certain that this message reached von bernstorff, so he made arrangements for it to be carried aboard a u-boat to sweden and from there to washington through diplomatic channels.
which statement best explains how the evidence from this excerpt leads to the inference that the message zimmermann sent was important?

a. because arthur zimmermann rarely sent telegrams to von bernstorff, the contents of the message had to be very important.
b. because the message was so important and needed to reach von bernstorff, zimmermann wanted the message to be carried across the ocean in a u-boat. c. the telegram’s destination, washington, d. c., suggests that the contents of the telegram were important to the germans and the british.
d. the route the telegram was to take, first to sweden and then to washington, d. c., supports the idea that the contents of the message were important.

The correct answer is B) Because the message was so important and needed to reach von Bernstorff, Zimmermann wanted the message to be carried across the ocean in a U-boat.

The statement that best explains how the evidence from this excerpt leads to the inference that the message Zimmermann sent was important is " Because the message was so important and needed to reach von Bernstorff, Zimmermann wanted the message to be carried across the ocean in a U-boat."

In the end, what happened was that on January 16, 1917, the British intelligence decoded a telegram from Zimmerman to the German ambassador in Mexico. When the British decoded the telegram, they sent it to the United States government and made it public. The United States, that had been maintaining a neutral position on the war, was very upset with the German government that also was showing hostility threatening to sink any ship that crossed European waters.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.