A filled-in form is a confession nobody meant to make. The questions are the institution’s, the answers are one person’s, and the gap between what was asked and what was written is where the players start digging.
An institution, a title, a reference and a date at the head, a line for the name of whoever filled it in, and a paragraph of instructions. Each question then picks how it is answered: one line, several ruled lines, a box, or up to four boxes to tick. Questions number themselves, a row set to a section heading starts a new part, and an examiner’s mark in the margin is circled in red.
The 1920s skin is a school examination paper, answered in ink and marked by the examiner. Eastern Bloc is a personnel questionnaire in boxes, typed, filled in by hand and checked by the office. Modern is a clinical screening survey with numbered circles and rounded tick boxes.
A4 at 300 DPI. Leave the answers empty for a blank form the players fill in themselves. An official account rather than a list of questions is an Official Form; a table of entries is a Register.