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Key Facts: Cantabria PAU Performing Arts II Exam

90 Minutes

Exam time duration

Universidad de Cantabria (UNICAN)

EUR 71.09

Base registration fee

Universidad de Cantabria

0–10 Scale

Grading scale for Bachillerato and PAU exams

Spanish Ministry of Education

6 Core Blocks

History, Composition/Semiotics, Staging, Acting, Dance, Production/Reception

LOMLOE 2º Bachillerato Syllabus

100 Questions

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Master the Cantabria PAU Performing Arts II exam with 100 practice questions covering theatrical history, dramatic composition and semiotics, staging and scenography, acting and interpretation theory, dance and movement, and production roles. This English-language multiple-choice bank is a study adaptation of the written-analysis and theory knowledge tested on the official Spanish-language exam — it does not simulate the official written format or the practical performance component.

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1Which figure is traditionally credited as the first actor in Western theatre, stepping out of the chorus in Ancient Greece to speak as an individual character?
A.Thespis
B.Sophocles
C.Aristotle
D.Menander
Explanation: Thespis is traditionally credited as the first performer to step out of the choral group and take on an individual character's voice, effectively creating the role of the actor. His name is the origin of the word 'thespian'.
2In his Poetics, which concept did Aristotle use to describe the emotional purging or release that tragedy produces in its audience?
A.Mimesis
B.Catharsis
C.Hubris
D.Hamartia
Explanation: Aristotle described catharsis as the purification or emotional release, especially of pity and fear, that a well-constructed tragedy produces in its audience through the imitation of a serious action.
3Which Roman playwright is best known for tragedies written primarily for private reading or recitation rather than public performance, later influencing Renaissance revenge tragedy?
A.Plautus
B.Terence
C.Seneca
D.Livius Andronicus
Explanation: Seneca wrote tragedies of intense violence and rhetorical speech, generally believed to have been composed for recitation or reading circles rather than staged production. His bloody, revenge-driven plots strongly influenced Elizabethan revenge tragedy.
4Medieval European liturgical drama, performed inside churches to dramatize biblical episodes, is generally understood to have grown out of which short sung dialogue embedded in the Easter Mass?
A.The Corpus Christi cycle
B.The Everyman morality
C.The auto sacramental
D.The Quem Quaeritis trope
Explanation: The Quem Quaeritis trope, a brief sung dialogue between angels and the three Marys at Christ's tomb inserted into the Easter liturgy, is widely cited as the seed from which liturgical drama and later vernacular religious theatre grew.
5What term describes the short comic bits of stage business, such as pratfalls or sight gags, improvised by masked servant characters in Commedia dell'Arte?
A.Lazzi
B.Zanni
C.Canovaccio
D.Intermezzo
Explanation: Lazzi are the stock comic routines and physical bits of business, such as a mimed catastrophe or an acrobatic trick, that Commedia dell'Arte performers inserted into a scene to generate laughter, often independent of the main plot.
6Which stock character of Commedia dell'Arte is portrayed as a greedy, jealous old Venetian merchant, typically dressed in a red vest, black cloak, and slippers?
A.Il Dottore
B.Pantalone
C.Il Capitano
D.Colombina
Explanation: Pantalone is the miserly, elderly Venetian merchant of Commedia dell'Arte, usually the father figure whose wealth and jealous possessiveness over a daughter or young wife drives much of the comic plot.
7Which Spanish Golden Age playwright authored the treatise 'Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo' (1609), breaking from classical unities to establish the three-act 'comedia nueva' formula?
A.Tirso de Molina
B.Pedro Calderón de la Barca
C.Lope de Vega
D.Miguel de Cervantes
Explanation: Lope de Vega wrote 'Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo' in 1609, defending his practice of mixing tragic and comic elements and abandoning strict classical unities in favor of a popular three-act structure that came to define the Spanish 'comedia nueva'.
8Pedro Calderón de la Barca's philosophical drama 'La vida es sueño' centers on which imprisoned prince who questions the boundary between dream and reality?
A.Basilio
B.Rosaura
C.Clotaldo
D.Segismundo
Explanation: Segismundo is the imprisoned prince of Poland in 'La vida es sueño', whose journey from captivity to power and back forces him to confront whether life itself is merely a dream, making him the play's central philosophical figure.
9What term describes the public, open-air commercial playhouses of Golden Age Spain, such as Madrid's Corral del Príncipe, built in courtyards between buildings?
A.Corrales de comedias
B.Teatro a la italiana
C.Auto sacramental
D.Teatro de cámara
Explanation: Corrales de comedias were the popular commercial theatres of Golden Age Spain, adapted from courtyards enclosed by surrounding buildings, with standing space for the general public and galleries for wealthier patrons.
10Which London playhouse, built in 1599 for the Lord Chamberlain's Men and associated with William Shakespeare, was a polygonal open-air theatre with a thrust stage surrounded by standing 'groundlings'?
A.The Rose Theatre
B.The Globe Theatre
C.The Blackfriars Theatre
D.The Fortune Theatre
Explanation: The Globe Theatre, built in 1599 on the south bank of the Thames for Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, featured an open-air polygonal design with a thrust stage projecting into a yard where 'groundlings' stood to watch for a low fee.

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