Round 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. This character vomits up a sausage onto the long, sniffing nose of an old man whose wine he (*) steals by drilling a hole in the bottom of a jug. Until the 19th century, censors excised a chapter in which this character accompanies a pardoner who fakes miracles to sell indulgences. This character (10[1])narrates his starving youth in service to masters like a penniless squire (10[1])and a blind beggar in an anonymous work of prose. For 10 points, what boy titles a 16th-century Spanish novella that launched the picaresque genre? ■END■ (10[1])

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