Q 01/05

Fern tells a girl she once tutored that she isn't homeless, just what?

A) Rootless

B) Jobless

C) Restless

D) Houseless

Answer · why

D) Houseless

Houseless is the word Fern chooses, and she lives by it: offered a roof more than once in the film, she goes back to her van each time.

Q 02/05

What nickname does Fern give the vehicle she lives in?

A) Rocinante

B) Tumbleweed

C) Vanguard

D) Old Faithful

Answer · why

C) Vanguard

Vanguard is the white Ford van Fern buys after selling most of what she owns, and she sleeps, cooks and washes up in it for the rest of the film.

Q 03/05

Nomadland is based on a nonfiction book by which journalist?

A) Jessica Bruder

B) Barbara Ehrenreich

C) Rebecca Solnit

D) Joan Didion

Answer · why

A) Jessica Bruder

Jessica Bruder grew the book out of her 2014 Harper's cover story, 'The End of Retirement', then spent about three years following nomads around the c...

Q 04/05

In which Nevada town does Fern lose her job when the plant closes?

A) Empire

B) Gerlach

C) Ely

D) Tonopah

Answer · why

A) Empire

Empire is a real company town: its ZIP code was scrapped within months of the plant closing, but a new mining firm bought the site and began moving wo...

Q 05/05

What did the plant in Fern's company town produce?

A) Borax for detergent

B) Copper for wiring

C) Silver for coinage

D) Gypsum for sheetrock

Answer · why

D) Gypsum for sheetrock

Gypsum for sheetrock: when demand fell, the plant shut in January 2011, and by that summer the company town around it had been emptied.