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For #22, could you explain why we should be drawn to l. 18 that supports (A) versus paragraph 3 which addresses (B)?

Fortunately, you do not here (and you will never on this test!) have to choose between two supported answers.
This passage does not tell us that Dostoyevsky thought realism was unable to represent political viewpoints (in fact, it says nearly the opposite in line 36: the artist "possesses a talent to express his thoughts." There's no indication that such talent doesn't extend to political thoughts).
Instead, we're told that Dostoyevsky thought realism does not have to be used for political purposes (indeed, to do so would be to assign to it line 28's "shameful destiny").
Make sense?

So realism could be equal to the task of representing political views, according to the third paragraph? It does not have to but it can?

To be "equal to the task" means "capable of accomplishing the task." Dostoyevsky gives us no reason to think art is not capable of expressing a political view. Instead, he suggests that art is simply too good to stoop that low.