The Parallax View (1974) by Allan J. Pakula posits a secret league of assassins and infiltrators.
Would you pass their test?
PARALLAX CORPORATION
Division of Human Engineering
Personality Inventory
- I am a healthy person.
- I like fashion magazines.
- I worry sometimes.
- I like high places.
- I like romantic stories better than adventure stories.
- I am at my best in large groups.
- I am often frightened when I wake up in the middle of the night.
- When I am feeling happy, someone is sure to spoil my mood.
- Sometimes strange men follow me.
- Sometimes a little thing will run through my mind for days and days.
- I am never embarrassed.
- I see things around me that other people do not see.
- I have never vomited blood.
- I know who is responsible for my problems.
- The sight of blood does not make me sick or afraid.
- I would like to be an actor.
- Often I can’t understand why I have been so irritable and touchy.
- Someone is out to get me.
- My father would hate me if I got into trouble with the law.
- There is something not right about my mind.
- I like to win when I play games.
- I never liked school.
- I want people to remember me when I am gone.
- I have never cried.
- My friends always end up double-crossing me.
- Knowing important people makes me feel good because it makes me feel important.
I mean, who can say no to any of these things? Who would not like to be an actor?