Quest tomorrow on Chapters 7-12 of Siddhartha
Vocab, content questions, and AP rhetoric style questions

Chapters 11-12 vocab

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.
Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what
you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.
1. Their vanities, desires and trivialities no longer seemed absurd to him; they had
become understandable, lovable and even worthy of respect.
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2. The men of the world were equal to the thinkers in every other respect and were often
superior to them, just as animals in their tenacious undeviating actions in cases of
necessity may often seem superior to human beings.
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3. He remembered how once, as a youth, he had compelled his father to let him go and
join the ascetics, how he had taken leave of him, how he had gone and never returned.
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4. He mentioned everything, he could tell him everything, even the most painful things;
he could disclose everything.
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5. They all belonged to each other: the lament of those who yearn, the laughter of the
wise, the cry of indignation, and the groan of the dying.
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6. "But most of all, I have learned from this river and from my predecessor, Vasudeva."
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7. "Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate
always sounds foolish."
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8. "During deep meditation, it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the
past, present, and future...."
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9. The river seemed like a god to him and for many years he did not know that every
wind, every cloud, every bird, every beetle is equally divine and knows and can teach
just as well as the esteemed river.
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10. Govinda said: "But what you call thing, is it something real, something intrinsic? Is it
not only the illusion of Maya, only image and appearance?"
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