1. What is the source of the authors (Sam Apples) fascination with Hans Breuer and with Austria?
2. Discern major components of national and/or socio-cultural identity of (a) the narrator, ostensibly the author himself, and (b) the character of Hans Breuer. (In other words what makes Sam Apple and Hans Breuer Jewish? Each one, of course, within their own biographical and social context, and what brings them together?)
3. How and in what context is Yiddish language, songs, sayings, or East European Jewish culture being mentioned, used, or alluded to throughout the book.