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While the Spread of Salons, Concerts, and Exhibitions Took Place

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While the spread of salons, concerts, and exhibitions took place among the middle and upper classes, what forms of entertainment demonstrated the persistence of traditional forms of popular culture among the lower classes?


A) Peasants continued to enjoy fairs and festivals, while the urban lower classes went to taverns and cabarets and attended forms of entertainment that included organized gambling.
B) In both the countryside and the cities, lower-class entertainment revolved primarily around religious festivals and holidays.
C) Since the majority of the lower classes were now literate, social gatherings featured recitations of popular poetry and bawdy theater.
D) The rural and urban working classes continued to engage in sporting activities such as cricket and polo, which were perceived as violent and crass by the upper classes.

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