An interview question

At a job interview earlier today I think I flunked one of the Human Resources questions, but it was at least a question with an interesting background to it.  The question was as follows:

"At [company X] what do you think are three attributes which your line manager would describe you as being?"

And I said something like:

"Quiet.  Analytical.  Easy-going."

They then later asked:

"What are three attributes which you would use to describe yourself?"

And I said the same.  In hindsight that maybe wasn't the best answer, and instead I should have said something similar but non-identical.  The combination of these two questions are probably about an assessment of perspective taking, or what is known in psychology as theory of mind.  In simple terms, whether you can put yourself into someone else's shoes and imagine the world from a point of view which may be slightly different to your own, perhaps also with a different status relationship.  I expect that it will turn out that many social animals (non-human primates, cats, dogs, elephants, perhaps even cetaceans) have some degree of TOM capability, even if it's of a quite rudimentary nature compared to our own.