The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Part 6: Word Choice and Motif — Unit test
Question 3 • RMA FL-1001370-English 3 Semester 2
Which quotations support the central idea that Brutus thinks Caesar is dangerous and needs to be killed before he becomes even more dangerous? Select three options.
Answer
A
“Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented, / Would run to these and these extremities;”
B
“But 'tis a common proof / That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder”
C
“Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins / Remorse from power.”
D
“And since the quarrel / Will bear no colour for the thing he is”
E
“And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg / Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous, / And kill him in the shell.”