Reread Polonius's "farewell speech" to Laertes in Act I, Scene 3 of Hamlet and then interpret, thought by thought, this "fatherly advice" to a son returning to college. You need not write a paragraph; instead, use complete sentences to make a numbered list of your interpretation of each thought as it occurs in the text. There are eleven proverb-like thoughts in this speech. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

1. the ranch hand whit reminisces about a ranch hand, bill tenner, who is no longer on the ranch. which theme does this best illustrate? a. the injustice of discrimination b. the value of hopes and dreams c. the destructiveness of human beings d. the loneliness of human beings 2. steinbeck illustrates symbolism when he describes a. the heron feeding on the snake in the pond. b. lennie talking to the gigantic rabbit. c. george telling lennie it isn't his fault. d. slim's invitation to go have a drink. 3. george's traveling companion, lennie, always asks to hear about the rabbits. which of the following best describes his reasoning? a. lennie knows it george to talk about the rabbits. b. the rabbits are bigger than mice making them able to withstand lennie's petting. c. lennie lived on a farm where he was responsible for raising rabbits. d. the rabbits are part of george and lennie's dream of one day having a farm of their own. 4. changing the sequence of events in a chronological essay uses the literary element of a. flashback. b. dramatic irony. c. imagery. d. allusion. 5. to insure transition and flow in a chronological essay, it is important to use proper a. time order/sequence signal words. b. cause and effect signal words. c. compare/contrast signal words. d. descriptive signal words. 6. steinbeck characterizes curley in such a way as to use him a. as a symbol of hope in a difficult situation. b. as an element of human sexuality. c. as a point of tension in the plot's rising action. d. as comic relief in dramatic scenes.