Premise: Entering another person's memory with your words, perhaps a person quite different from yourself, is in certain ways more glorious than any prize or title.

Hypothesis: People never remember what you say.
Answer: no

Premise: A self-administered Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (SMAST).

Hypothesis: The acronym for Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test is SMAST.
Answer: yes

Premise: Your daughter won't call him Dad, which he wants; and he won't permit a first-name address (which is perfectly acceptable), which is what she wants.

Hypothesis: She wants to call him Dad in spite of him wanting to be called by name.
Answer: no

Premise: Fueled by conglomerate investment, publishers released more than 60,000 new titles in 1995, at least 10,000 more than in 1985.

Hypothesis: The publishers only released a few titles because they couldn't be bothered
Answer: no