What do you think is meant by the line "we learned that
quiet isn't always peace?"
When can something or
someone be quiet but NOT
peaceful?

Quiet is not always peace because so many things can happen in the quiet moments and it can be so dark. Peace is a feeling but it can be felt in the quiet and in the loudness. It is true that peace can be felt in the quiet moments of praying or while one's children are asleep but even when one's children are a sleep is it peaceful or is a mother stressed and cleaning?

It can be quiet when a girl just lost her parents, broke up with someone, (Something else sad) and silently cries heartbroken.

It can be quiet as someone takes an exam but it is not peaceful everyone is stressing out about the exam.

Explanation:

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 am not sure, but i think the correct answer is a.

hope it : -)