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1. The opening line of a play by which playwright reads: 'Ismene, dear sister, You would think that we had already suffered enough...'?
2. Which poet wrote: 'Water is best, and gold, like a blazing fire in the night, stands out supreme of all lordly wealth.'?
3. In which of his plays did Aristophanes write: 'Well. I'm afraid you've come a fool's errand. Your wives have gone.'?
4. Who wrote that a life of reason was: 'a life in the possession of intelligence, thought, knowledge, and a complete memory of everything, but without an atom of pleasure, or indeed pain, in a condition of utter insensibility to such things.'?
5. Which of the following is not credited with being an architect of the Parthenon?
6. To what age was Ovid referring when he wrote: 'Truth, modesty, and shame, the world forsook: Fraud, avarice, and force, their places took.'?
7. Which poet wrote: 'Tonight I've watched -- the moon and then -- the Pleiades -- go down -- The night is now -- {half-gone;} youth -- {goes;} I am --in bed alone.'?
8. Who said: 'Practice makes perfect.'?
9. Who said: 'We can only explain you, young man, by assuming that your father was drunk the night he begot you.'?
10. It was said of which Greek artist that his grapes were so lifelike birds tried to peck at them?
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