Winning His Spurs 10

Study Guide Questions for Ch. 19-20

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

Hospitality, Loyalty, Prudence, Gullibility, Home, Joy, Despotism 

Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)

1. What did Cnut do the moment he had the chance after they ceased from running?

2. How did Cuthbert’s men feel about their time traveling in the forest?

3. What instructions was Cuthbert given as to how he might repay the kindness shown to him at Basle?

4. What incident occurred while the men were staying at the lowly inn?

5. When Cuthbert had reached the city of Nancy, what disturbed him to learn?

6. Who finally brought news of King Richard and what was it?

7. According to the story, why did Cuthbert not want to make his homecoming widely known?

8. What was the general response of the English people to the news of their kings’ plight?

9. What had Prince John done which caused “among all the friends of King Richard a very strong feeling of anger?”

10. What plan did Cuthbert decide on concerning the situation of his earlship and the wellbeing of Lady Margaret?

11. Where did Cuthbert take up residence for the meanwhile and with whom?

12. What did Cuthbert’s mother help him to arrange?

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

1. What did Henty mean by writing that the men were “bearded… in the heart?”

2. Why wouldn’t the Burgomaster of Basle accept Cuthbert’s “gage?”

3. Why was the “fawning civility” of the innkeeper a red flag to Cuthbert and Cnut and what might be inferred about the innkeeper after the incident that occurred at his inn?

4. Why would men who, at least in their mind, gave themselves to the cause of Christ in the Crusades turn to lawless robbery?

5. Why might Prince John have refused to recognize the patent declaring Cuthber Earl of Evesham as presented by the?

6. What would be the “pros and cons” of Cuthbert openly announcing that he had returned to England and calling himself the “Earl of Evesham?”

7. What is meant by the statement that Rudolph, should he continue his present course, “will rule over a desert?”

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

1. Lady Margaret was promised by Prince John to Sir Rudolph Fleming as a wife so soon as she became “of marriageable age.” What should determine the age it is appropriate for someone to marry? Do you think it is the same for both men and women? Why do you think the “proper age for marriage” is different throughout the centuries and still varies by custom in different parts of the world?

Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)

1. Cuthbert offered his gold chain, which he had received from King Richard, as a “gage” in exchange for the things he was given. What “gage” does God give Christian believers concerning their salvation according to Ephesians 1:11-14?

2. Consider the following statement made by a certain bandit in the story: “We have gone through the Crusades, and are therefore held to be absolved from all sin, even that so great as would be incurred in the cutting of your knightly throat.” Now read Romans 6:1-14. Can the bandits' claim be reconciled to this passage of Scripture? Why or why not?