The Eagle of the Ninth 8

Study Guide Questions for Ch. 8 “The Healer with the Knife”

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Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)

Happiness, Love, Community and Fellowship, Loyalty, Friendship

Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)

1. What had prevented Cottia from coming to see Marcus as she had planned?

2. What did Marcus ask uncle Aquila to do on his behalf?

3. What did Marcus and Cottia enjoy talking about?

4. Because of Marcus’ increasing pain in his leg, what became necessary and who helped him?

5. What story did Marcus listen to with “about half of his attention” which would later “be tremendously important to him”?

6. What did Cottia do to Stephanos when he tried to prevent her from seeing Marcus?

7. What was Cottia upset with Marcus about?

8. What did Marcus realize after Cottia and Esca went out from him?

9. What did Galarius say he found during Marcus’ surgery?

Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)

1. Why was Marcus “happier than he had been for three days” after seeing Cottia briefly?

2. Why does Marcus make reference to Perseus and Andromeda?

3. Why is it humorous that Marcus once had a dog named Argos?

4. Why do you think the story Galarius told, which Marcus only half listened to, will later be important to him?

5. Why would Cottia say, “You had no right not to tell me….It was mine to know.” Why did she word things so strongly?

6. What made Marcus “suddenly…with a sense of discovery” realize “that it had been a good summer”?

7. Compare Marcus’ experiences described in this chapter (surgery aside) with his uncle Aquila’s explanation (in chapter 5) for why he made Britain his home. What similarities do you notice and what might we infer from those similarities?

Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)

1. What makes a place home? Be specific in your answer and try to state what is essential to the concept without stating things which are non-essential. Be persuasive in arguing that your definition is correct.

Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)

1. What does 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 teach us about our true home?

2. Read Revelation 21. Make at least three observations, which you would say are the most important ones, about what the true and final home of believers will be like.