Packet 4: Tossup 1

A hungry nobleman bursts into laughter when this character thinks that a funeral procession’s destination, a “sad and miserable house where they never eat or drink,” is his home. This character is warned of a pair of mounted mule’s horns as a child, prefiguring his future as a cuckolded town crier. (-5[1])This character vomits up a sausage onto the long, sniffing nose of an old man whose wine he (*) steals (10[2])by drilling a hole (10[5])in the (10[1])bottom (10[3])of a jug. (10[6])Until the 19th century, censors excised a chapter in which this character accompanies a pardoner (10[2])who fakes (-5[1])miracles to sell indulgences. (10[1])This character (10[1])narrates his starving youth in service (10[1])to masters like a penniless squire (10[1])and a blind beggar in an anonymous (10[1])work of prose. For 10 points, what boy titles a 16th-century Spanish novella (10[1])that launched the (10[1])picaresque (10[1])genre? (10[1]0[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[5]0[5])

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