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Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar and answer the question that follows:

Brutus
It must be by his death, and for my part
I know no personal cause to spurn at him
But for the general. He would be crowned.
How that might change his nature, there's the question.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder
And that craves wary walking. Crown him that,
And then I grant we put a sting in him
That at his will he may do danger with.
Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
Remorse from power. And, to speak truth of Caesar,
I have not known when his affections swayed
More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber upward turns his face.
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.
Then, lest he may, prevent. And since the quarrel
Will bear no color for the thing he is,
Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented,
Would run to these and these extremities.
And therefore think him as a serpent's egg—
Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous—
And kill him in the shell.

Read the following lines from the text:

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder
And that craves wary walking

An adder is a snake, suggesting the speaker feels Caesar is (5 points)


not to be trusted

slow moving

predictable and constant

spiritually conflicted

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A. not to be trusted
User Vitali
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Answer: A) not to be trusted.

Step-by-step explanation: In the given excerpt from "Julius Caesar" we can see Brutus talking about what the consequences would have been if Ceasar would have been crowned. He compares him to a snake to suggest that he thinks that Ceasar is not to be trusted, because Brutus thinks that he would have been an abuser of greatness and power and also he speaks of how ambitious Ceasar was, so the correct answer is option A.

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