The Day of the Locust | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. Who is Tod Hackett?

An artist

2. Where did Tod go to college?

Yale

3. What is Tod watching as the story begins?

Cavalrymen and infantrymen

4. Where is Tod viewing this scene?

A Hollywood sound stage

5. What does the little man carry?

A megaphone

6. What does Tod take to get home?

A streetcar

7. How long has Tod been in Hollywood?

Not quite three months

8. Why did Tod get hired?

Good drawings done at school

9. What is Tod supposed to learn on this job?

Set and costume design

10. What does Tod want to do with the people he meets?

Paint them

11. Which artists is Tod interested in now?

Goya and Daumier

12. What does Tod not like in the landscape he sees on his way home?

The ugly houses

Chapter 2

1. Where does Tod live?

A room...
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