Premise: You might imagine I loved covering him.

Hypothesis: I hated covering for him.
Answer: no

Premise: It is unlikely that the mirror in the room overlooking the pond was the very one in which the sultan got his fatal peek at her, but the guides tell the story this way to make it more enticing for visitors.

Hypothesis: The guides tell this story to get visitors' attention, even though it's probably not true.
Answer: yes

Premise: That may be true, but the connection between the gay awakening and the student rebellion of 1968 is an oblique one.

Hypothesis: The circumstances that may be true are a result of a good economy.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: didn't it do that to New England a couple years ago

Hypothesis: That has never been done to New England.
Answer: no