See the multi-choice question below:

Sentence 1: He fought to remember what he'd heard the nurse say--something about when he was alive--as if he'd been dead a long time....

Sentence 2: The nurse spoke as if he had been dead for a while now...

If the first sentence is true, then is the second sentence true?
Choose your answer from:
A). yes.
B). it is not possible to tell.
C). no.
A).