INTERVIEW QUESTIONS; PLACING THEM IN ORDER

The following list of unordered questions were a result of a mock interview I conducted with my students to help them with the interview process. I took on the persona of Mr. Brianka - a fictional character with a pretty wild life. I quite enjoyed the activity - I don't usually get much time to act unless of course you consider teaching acting. Before this, however, I went through a Pre-Interview session whereby my students asked me general questions to find out what I thought about many issues, and through which they determined my biographical details, and then they conducted the actual interview.

1. Tell me about the genetic experiments – were they legal, did your grandfather know about them and if so, was he using his experiments for good or bad?
2. Were the experiments only used on animals or also humans?
3. There has been a history of mental illness in your family. Do your brothers and sisters have any problems in that field and do you feel that you have all your marbles?
4. Has growing up with your mother in a mental institution and only seeing your father on weekends affect you in any way?
5. Where do you see yourself in ten years?
6. When you came to Australia you attended Albany High School, where you were continuously bashed. Why did you act the way you did when you knew you were going to be bashed the following week? What was your reason for not leaving/
7. You have demonstrated your affection for pets, so why did you drown your cat?
8. When carrying out these experiments did you have any professional knowledge on how to make a llama with 2 heads?
9. In 1975 you came to Australia to live in Albany. What has your life been like so far?
10. How has your knowledge of language helped you?
11. What has been the best thing about moving to Albany?
12. In 1975 you moved to Australia at the age of 12, where you lived in Albany. What was the reason for this move and how did it affect your life?
13. What sparked the murder of your cat?
14. Where do you see yourself in the future?
15. You were born in 1963 in Zimbabwe and said that your parents were psychos. Did any of your brothers and sisters have any problems?
16. If you had a chance to write a book about your life would you?
17. Do any of your books have a detailed description of your life?
18. Why did you learn so many languages?
19. When you were at school, why didn’t you try to make many friends?
20. How did you come to know so much about genetic engineering?
21. Don’t you think you are interfering in nature when you experiment on llamas?
22. Do you believe that having problems during your childhood left an effect on your life?
23. Do your girlfriends, with whom you have a Platonic relationship, make up for your lack of friends through life?
24. How has your life and culture background influenced your books?
25. Do you believe youth could get used to being bashed up during their childhood?
26. When you got bashed up why didn’t you fight?