AP PREP POST 1: SIDDHARTHA

A) 1. If you were the river, would you be enlightenment or would you know enlightenment? In other words, what’s up with the river? What is it’s relation to enlightenment? http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html
2. What purpose does self-denial serve in Siddhartha? What about self-indulgence? http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html
3. What does Siddhartha mean when he refers to the "path of paths" that must be found? (p. 17) Why is he so certain that neither the Brahmans nor the samanas have found it? http://www.greatbooks.org/resources/guides/novels/siddhartha/
4.When Siddhartha can no longer distinguish the many voices he hears in the river, why does he feel that "he had now learned all there was to know about listening"?  http://www.greatbooks.org/resources/guides/novels/siddhartha/
5. What does enlightenment look like in Siddhartha? Is it a feeling? An attitude? http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html
B) 1. For this question, i would need to have a better understanding of the river and its affect on Siddartha.
2. Self-denial is Siddartha's means of improving his abilities of meditation and such. He is a devoted ascetic and that is how he reaches his goals. Self-indulgence is when Siddartha begins to follow and explore different parts of life along his undetermined path.
3. Siddartha believes there is a path that all should follow that no one has yet found. 
4. Another question about the river.
5. Enlightenment in Siddartha is satisfaction when he finally finds the path he believes is the best.
C) these questions show what a test will look for in the knowledge of a student on a cetrain work, and most of it is on a deeper level. To see the writers meaning in what he is writing.