He gets annoyed when you ask direct questions? Here's what it means

Read the reaction by what it's aimed at. If he says the question is too much, or calls it an interrogation, he's responding to the feeling of being put on the spot. That's common when a person hasn't decided what they want yet, or when they expect a yes-or-no answer will disappoint someone. If instead he answers a different question than the one you asked, or changes the subject to something you can't follow up on, that's more often avoidance. Look at the shape of the reply. A short, irritated line followed by a real answer later is one pattern. A reply that never addresses the question at all, across several days, is another. The first usually means he needs time or doesn't like being pinned down. The second means he's keeping the option open without saying so. Neither tells you he's a bad match on its own, but they tell you different things about how easy it'll be to get clarity from him.

A direct question can be hard to answer because it asks for everything at once. Breaking it into something he can answer in a line makes it easier to respond honestly. Instead of asking what he wants from this, ask a narrower question about the next step: whether he wants to meet this week, or whether he's still talking to other people. Name the thing you need to know and make it clear that either answer is fine. You can also say what you're doing with your own time so he has a sense of your side without it being a demand. The aim is to make a truthful answer cheap for him to give. If you still get irritation after you've made it smaller, the difficulty is his, not the wording.

If he gets annoyed and then goes quiet for several days, the quiet is the more useful signal. People who are bothered by a question but still interested usually come back within a day or two, often with a joke or an apology that doesn't quite answer. Give it a reasonable window, around three to four days, before you decide anything. If he returns and the conversation is warm again but still avoids the original question, you can ask once more, plainly, and note that you'd like a straight answer before you keep planning things. If he returns and the question is still dodged, or he disappears again, you have your answer about how he handles clarity, even if he never says it. At that point you don't need to keep pushing. Stop asking, stop filling the silence, and let your next move be about what you want, not about getting him to explain himself.