Premise: Shulman aside, you could find one-line descriptions of Goodman's main characters in any half-dozen American-Jewish the rabbi with two sons, one brilliant and prodigal, one duller but more loyal; the Holocaust survivor numbed by his past; the daughters tempted by the twin heresies of feminism and Zionism (Israel is viewed as a nation of faithless sinners by these ultra-Orthodox Jews); the assimilationist Jew who comes to a bad end.

Hypothesis: Goodman does not like to use too much descriptive sentences and adjectives.
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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: The outstanding works on view include a dozen or so 15th- and 16th-century Flemish paintings, regarded as some of the richest in Portugal and rare even in the rest of Europe.

Hypothesis: The paintings are all fake and are not worth seeing.
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Answer: no

Premise: Although their villages don't look very different from the other rural communities on the island, it is the Maroon attitude to life which make these societies interesting to visit.

Hypothesis: The societies are interesting to visit.
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Answer: yes

Premise: Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position.

Hypothesis: There are two different things lying on either side of my stance.
OPTIONS:
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Answer: yes