Answer:
Looks Guilty because there is more then one
I feel like the tone in these few lines is that of stubbornness, so (D).
The author talks about how the fruit struggles and continues to grow despite of everything going against it. This is probably a reference to something else. ( I think the rights of colored people?"
ANSWER IS D
He is frightened by Mephistophillis
The woman and the host is the characters in "Arrangement in Black and White" that conveys refinement because the woman is the one that ask the host to present her to one of a negro singer which is Walter Williams, so the host and the woman does or conveys refinement to the singer.