7. What word or phrase best completes the sentence? the poor conditions in Nanzhong, Xiufen feels her spirits lift as she enters the village.

I think it might be because or due to, because its talking about how here spirts lift as she enters so it would be something like 'because of'

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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.

i believe the answer is d