Problem: Here is a premise:
In this regard, the scenarios are more like descriptions of alternative future outcomes rather than predictions or recommendations about how the future should unfold.

Here is a hypothesis:
the scenarios are more like descriptions of alternative futures

Here are the options:

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Problem: Here is a premise:
As one commentator observed in Manila right after Marcos fell, Ali Baba is gone, but the 40 thieves still remain.

Here is a hypothesis:
One commentator said that since Marcos survived the coup attempt, he was likely to remain president for the rest of his life.

Here are the options:

Answer: no

Problem: Here is a premise:
He was beginning to be rather ashamed of the things he had said.

Here is a hypothesis:
He had started feeling ashamed about what he said.

Here are the options:

Answer: yes

Problem: Here is a premise:
He knows whether the charges in the Hersh story are true, and that's why he's in such a quandary.

Here is a hypothesis:
He knows the truth about the Hersh story.

Here are the options:

Answer:
yes