Schindler's List | Short Essay Assignments

Short Essay Questions

The 60 short essay questions listed in this section require a one to two sentence answer. They ask students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of the text. Students must describe what they've read, rather than just recall it.

Short Essay Question - Prologue

1. Describe Oskar Schindler's physical appearance.

2. Describe how the dinner party contrasts with the season Keneally describes in the book's Prologue.

3. What does Keneally's initial description of Oskar Schindler tell you about the man?

4. In the Prologue, Keneally describes "a prison road paved with Jewish gravestones." Discuss the symbolism of this image.

5. In the Prologue, Keneally describes Schindler as "Sudenten German--Arkansas to their Manhattan, Liverpool to their Cambridge." What does he mean by this?

6. In the Prologue, the prostitute with...
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