The answer is A. He seems, however, to have recovered from his fright. While it should have a semi-colon instead of a comma before the "however", it is the only one that is correct. C. needs a comma after "I hope". D. does not use commas but it should have a comma after "rate". B. does not require a comma after "in".
Lower-class African Americans have a different sense of
identity than upper-class African Americans because:
They live with fewer social restrictions.
They do not seek the kind of success that white people
seek.
They do not care about how their identities fit into
social standards.
This is simply a metaphor because it is comparing one thing to something that is very much unlike it.
I believe that the answer is A and C, but if i had to choose it would have to be A