Question

Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 1, of Julius Caesar.

Answer 1

A. It shows that Cassius thinks that Brutus is too optimistic.

What Cassius is basically asking Brutus is whether he is willing to be humiliated and be marched through the streets tied up as trophy because this is what usually happened to the defeated.  What Cassius is trying to communicate to Brutus is the notion that he should consider the consequences of what were to happen should he happen to fail.