Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart Quiz

Alice Walker

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Plot Summary

+Chapters Summary and Analysis

"Cool Revolution," "To Kill or to Thaw the Anaconda"

"Change"

"He Wondered"

"And Sure Enough," "Yolo"

"The Curious Thing," "Had He Been Shot?," "When Kate Had Visited"

"Yolo Had Read," "First of All, Abandon," "Like Elizabeth Taylor"

"At the Waterfall," "The Longer Yolo Kicked Back"

"What Is Missing from the World," "The Mourners Outside the Church"

"Naturally," "I Am Peace," "James Dean Was the Only"

"We Mahus Believe," "It Was the Bones," "In the Circle"

"Toward the Middle of Their Stay"

"After the Last Circle," "A Person is Visible," "You Must Live: A Future Consequence"

"Kate Awoke the Last Day," "Yolo Woke," "When I Came Back Here"

"On the Plane Home," "They Bombed"

"Don’t Go Anywhere," "One Day, Standing in Her Garden," "It Will Be a Long Time," "It Was a Sunny Day"

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Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart Quiz

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart Quiz

What was the name of Kate's former con-artist wife? (from "Yolo Had Read," "First of All, Abandon," "Like Elizabeth Taylor")

To whom does Lalika begin praying in her captivity? (from "Naturally," "I Am Peace," "James Dean Was the Only")

What is a "mahu"? (from "We Mahus Believe," "It Was the Bones," "In the Circle")

What is the technical name for Grandmother medicine? (from "The Curious Thing," "Had He Been Shot?," "When Kate Had Visited")

What animal does Kate reflect on as being important to both women and Black individuals? (from "Don’t Go Anywhere," "One Day, Standing in Her Garden," "It Will Be a Long Time," "It Was a Sunny Day")