1. What is the purpose of the essay?

2. What does the author want readers to understand about the Mormon culture? And why is understanding needed in order to connect to the argument?

3. Explain how the author's perspective on her Mormon faith changes. Why must this shift occur before she can participate in the protest?

4. Which event or moment has the greatest effect in the author's decision to protest? Cite details from the essay to support your answer.

5. At some point she realized that she had been deceived. What does her revealing this to the audience add to the story?

6. What is the author's tone toward the government? What are three examples from the passage that support your answer?

7. What does she mean when she conveys that the price of obedience was too high?

8. How does the dream in the passage help the reader understand the author's perspective? Cite details from the essay to support your answer.

9. Choose three of the images in the passage and list them.
Then explain how why these images are needed in the passage to help the reader understand the author's argument.

10. Williams describes her writing saying "I write through my biases of gender, geography, and culture." How does this point of view influence both her writing and social activism?

11. How does the protest transform the author? Use textual evidence to support you answer.

12. The theme of rebirth is dominate in the passage. Explain the rebirth of the author and why it was necessary.

WRITING EXERCISE
Write a one paragraph response to something in Terry Tempest Williams’ “The Clan of One Breasted Women” that interested, intrigued, infuriated, or provoked some emotion in you. What is it? And why were your emotions evoked?