The passage describes the Author's impression of students participating in the "Upward Bound" program and it is generally favourable towards the program, without giving a more specific reason for this favourable opinion, it's more the author's personal impression.
Thus, we could say that the author has a positive bias towards the program.
The very last one to make it equal
We study art for many things; culture, history, determining value, studying religions.
This falls in abstract expressionism letter b that's the answer