Premise:
" A piece lionizes Ed McBain (real Evan Hunter), America's first great cop novelist."
Hypothesis: Ed McBain is lionized in a piece as the America's first great cop novelist because of his use of first person narrative.

it is not possible to tell

Premise:
"The elder Korbels came from a small town near the Czech/German border where Jews were almost entirely assimilated into secular life, hardly practicing, and lacking any communal institutions, including a synagogue."
Hypothesis: The Jews in the small town had a synagogue.

no

Premise:
"By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society."
Hypothesis: All citizens had equal rights at the end of the eighth century.
no