Q. Have you ever taken a visual examination?

A. This is the Rorschack, or “inkblot” test, a famous psychological test used for personality assessment. Subjects “free associate” while viewing 10 inkblot cards and their associations are said to provide insight into their thought processes.

There is, by the way, a range of less well-known visual tests that have been used by psychologists. Individual reactions to abstraction and other ambiguous visual information would, no doubt, be fascinating. Whether they provide a scientific basis for reliably evaluating personality is a very interesting, though debatable, question.