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Read the excerpt from act 2, scene 1, of Julius Caesar.BRUTUS. Kneel not, gentle Portia.PORTIA. I should not need if you were gentle Brutus. / Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, / Is it excepted I should know no secrets / That appertain to you? Am I yourself / But as it were in sort or limitation? / To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, / And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs / Of your good pleasure? If it be no more, / Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.BRUTUS. You are my true and honourable wife, / As dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That visit my sad heart.PORTIA. If this were true, then should I know this secret. / I grant I am a woman, but withal / A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife. / I grant I am a woman, but withal / A woman well reputed, Cato's daughter. / Think you I am no stronger than my sex, / Being so fathered and so husbanded? / Tell me your counsels; I will not disclose 'em. / I have made strong proof of my constancy, / Giving myself a voluntary wound / Here in the thigh. Can I bear that with patience, / And not my husband's secrets?BRUTUS. O ye gods, / Render me worthy of this noble wife!What effect does Brutus's secrecy have on his wife, Portia? Select three options.

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