The correct answer among the choices provided is the option A. The lines from the play are "think of him as a serpent's egg/ Which hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous". Hatched serpent's egg represents the acquisition of power by Caesar. Brutus also thinks that Caesar will become a corrupt leader.
The correct answer is your first option: <u>"think him as a serpents egg/ Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous"</u>
Explanation:
The question asks for a future response; thus, it cannot be the penultimate and last option, as this last one is in the past (when it already happened) and the penultimate is in the present (he's giving a fact). The second option isn't possible because he is actually affirming to do something, as "there is no cause to reject his offer". The first option is the correct choice for it is comparing the fact of giving him the powers to a serpent's egg, and with the adjective <em>mischevious </em>he shows and explains his fear for doing so.
