Comprehension Questions:
Restate the question and answer in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper. Use examples from the text to prove all answers.
1. What real person in history is this story about? What year was this person born?
2. Do you think the author really believes that Esther’s ideas are “crazy?” Why or why not?
3. What kind of person is Benjamin Sheeks? Why did he want to keep the proposal from being voted on by the Wyoming Territory Council?
4. Why do you think the justice of the peace in South Pass City resigned after the vote in the legislature? Explain.
5. What do you think caused Ben Sheeks to feel that women should be able to vote and hold office the same as men after he moved away from South Pass City?
6. What do you think the author meant when she wrote that Esther Morris had the courage to “show how the idea looked in the living of it”?
7. What effect did Esther Morris have on the townspeople? What effect did she have on the rest of the country? Make text-world connections.
8. Create a fact/opinion chart to list at least 5 facts from the text and 5 opinions.
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