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I posted a portion of the only Frisch questionnaire I had "at hand" some while ago: Questionnaire 1987, which appears at the very end of The German Library's volume devoted to Frisch. I was looking for some more on line (and found one text), but ran into this Paris Review interview with Frisch by Jodi Daynard (1989). I didn't read the whole thing, but Google +'ed it and snipped the ending which I found amusing (see below). I'll keep looking for more questionnaires (I think some are in his Sketchbooks, so I will dig them up). * From the Paris Review (Winter II, 1989): 

Which Reminds Me of Max Frisch's Questionnaires

Among other things. Here are a few excerpts from "Questionnaire 1987" (published in the German Library's Max Frisch: Novels, Plays, Essays ): QUESTIONNAIRE 1987 Question 1: Are you sure you are really interested in the preservation of the human race, once you and all the people you know are no longer living? Question 2: And, if yes: Why don't you act differently than you have so far? Question 3: What has changed human society more: the French Revolution, or a technical invention such as electronics, for instance? Question 4: Considering everything we owe today to technological super-mobilization--take for example the sector of kitchen hardware, etc.--do you think one really has to be grateful to the technologists and therefore also to the defense ministers who put our tax money at their disposal? Question 5: As a layman, what would you like to see invented in the near future? Briefly state why. Question 6: Could you still imagine a human existence (tha...