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Here are the answers to the Reading Quiz on E. B. White's Essay "The Ring of Time."
- (A) the winter quarters of Mr. John Ringling North's circus in Sarasota, Florida
- (E) a lack of spirit or interest
- (D) the girl's mother
- (A) a writer, a "recording secretary for one of the oldest of societies"
- (B) It is an old-fashioned (and rather boring) form of entertainment.
- (A) The neck strap of her bathing suit broke.
- (C) The richness of the scene was in its plainness . . ..
- (E) a circle
- (D) She will never be as beautiful as this again.
- (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."