Sonnet 116

What is most closely the meaning of the word bark as it is used in the passage below?

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken

• verb | yap (like a dog)

• verb | to search

• noun | cortex

• noun | a boat or ship

Which of the following selections best explains the passage below (lines 9-12)?

Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle’s compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Answer choices for the above question

• Lovers cannot fool time, because everyone dies eventually.

• True love remains steady as time passes.

• As time passes, the beauty of young lovers fades.

• True love is temporary.

With which of the following statements would the speaker most likely agree?

• t is important for a man to prove his love for his partner.

• You should only marry someone who is your intellectual equal.

• True love between two minds is eternal and withstands adversity.

• Physical attraction always transforms into love if given enough time.

Which line from the passage most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 3?

• “Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments.”

• “O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, / That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;”

• “Love’s not Time’s fool,”

• “If this be error and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”