Study Guide for Exam #2

Lectures:
The Play and the Playwright
Theatre of Diversity
Musical Theatre
Special Effects

Reading Assignments:
Chapters: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, & 18

Videos:
Broadway: The American Musical
Gypsy – with Bette Midler

Play Synopses from your textbook:
A Raisin in the Sun
Fences
Waiting for Godot 

Notes:

• There will be 50 multiply-choice questions on this exam. 
• The majority of the exam questions will come from the lectures, so study your lecture notes well. 
• Be sure to study the Play Synopses listed above.  Know the playwrights, the location of the plays, the major characters and the plots. 
• No answer on this exam will be a date.
• This exam covers a great number of playwrights, plays, and styles of theatre.  Study all of these - they will make up a large portion of this exam.