Answers to the Reading Quiz on "The Ring of Time" by E. B. White

Here are the answers to the Reading Quiz on E. B. White's Essay "The Ring of Time."

1. (A) the winter quarters of Mr. John Ringling North's circus in Sarasota, Florida


2. (E) a lack of spirit or interest


3. (D) the girl's mother


4. (A) a writer, a "recording secretary for one of the oldest of societies"


5. (B) It is an old-fashioned (and rather boring) form of entertainment.


6. (A) The neck strap of her bathing suit broke.


7. (C) The richness of the scene was in its plainness . . ..


8. (E) a circle


9. (D) She will never be as beautiful as this again.


10. (B) Time does not really move in a circle at all.

For a detailed study of White's prose style, see our Rhetorical Analysis of E B. White's "The Ring of Time."

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