Which sentence is written in the active voice? a) the lawn was mowed by john. b) the recital was rescheduled by the teacher. c) the committee made adequate progress toward the city's goals. d) the game was won by the atlanta braves after nine laborious innings.

C)The committee made adequate progress toward the city's goals.

Explanation:

The subject of the sentence, the committee, is doing the action in the sentence.

this labor, by slow prudence to make mild.   c. ability to govern well

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.