If a novelist is popular he or she can vividly imagine large numbers of characters, each with a personality and attitudes that are completely different from those of the others and from those of the novelist. ████ █ ██████ ████ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ███████████ ████ ██████ ███ ████ █████ ██████████ █████████ ████ ███ ██ ███ ███ ███ ██ ████ ████ ████ ██████ █████ ███ ███████ █████ ██ ███ ██ ███ ███ ████████
If a novelist is popular, then he or she can vividly imagine large numbers of characters with different personalities and attitudes. A popular novelist is also capable of empathizing with people who have different goals. In addition, someone capable of such empathy will have some doubts about the genuine value of his or her own desires. 
For Must Be False questions, the wrong answers are all Could Be True. The one right answer Must Be False. The correct answer will contradict something that must be true based on the stimulus. Here are some example inferences that the correct answer might contradict:
Some novelists who can vividly imagine large numbers of characters with different attitudes and personalities have doubts about the genuine value of their own desires.
Some novelists who can vividly imagine large numbers of different characters are can empathize with people who have completely different goals.
We should keep an open mind, because there are other statements that must be true based on the stimulus, and the correct answer could come from a contradiction of one of those other statements that we haven't articulated up front.
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Could be true. We know that all popular novelists can vividly imagine large numbers of characters, but it is possible that some novelists who are not popular can also do this. A necessary condition can be satisfied without the sufficient condition being true.
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Could be true. We know that all popular novelists are capable of empathizing with people whose goals are different, but this implies that if a novelist cannot empathize in this way, then they are not popular. So, some unpopular novelists might exist who lack the ability to empathize.
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Must be false. If an author is a popular novelist, then that novelist must have the ability to empathize with those who have completely different goals. So it's impossible for some popular novelists to be incapable of empathizing with those who have different goals.
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Could be true. We know all people capable of empathizing with those who have completely different goals have doubts about the value of their own desires. It is also possible that all people who have doubts about the value of their own desires are capable of empathizing. (If we know that all As are B, it's possible that all Bs are A.)
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Could be true. We know that all popular novelists have doubts about the value of their own desires. It is also possible that most writers who have these doubts are popular novelists. (If we know that All As are B, it is possible that most Bs are A.)
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