Question

Choose the answer.

Answer 1

Answer: B

 The explicit meaning in this passage is best expressed by the alternative B: "Brutus told you (Brutus hath told you ) Caesar was ambitious. If it's true that Caesar was (if it were so), then it wasn't a good thing (it was a grievous fault ), and he's been punished for it (and grievously hath Caesar answer'd it )."

Grievous: having very serious effects or causing great pain.

Answer 2

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The answer to this question would be the second choice.

"Brutus told you Caesar was ambitious. If it's true that Caesar was, then it wasn't a good thing, and he's been punished for it."