PHIL 101 ACTUAL EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Kierkegaard on meaning - ✔✔A true self is formed by commitment to something
outside oneself
✔✔Existentialism - ✔✔Philosophy focused on individual existence choice and authentic
life
✔✔Camus' absurdism - ✔✔The view that life has no ultimate meaning but people
should still live freely and passionately
✔✔Camus on the self - ✔✔The self is not a soul to uncover but a body will and capacity
for action
✔✔Joseph Campbell - ✔✔Scholar who developed the hero's journey as a pattern found
in myths and stories
✔✔Hero's journey - ✔✔A cycle of stages where a hero leaves ordinary life faces
challenges and returns transformed
✔✔The Hero with a Thousand Faces - ✔✔Joseph Campbell's major book about the
hero's journey
✔✔George Lucas and Campbell - ✔✔Campbell's hero's journey strongly influenced Star
Wars
✔✔Hero's journey purpose - ✔✔Shows self transformation growth awareness and
empowerment
✔✔Seventeen stages - ✔✔Campbell's original version of the hero's journey had
seventeen stages
, ✔✔Twelve stages - ✔✔Hollywood simplified the hero's journey into twelve common
stages
✔✔Carol Pearson - ✔✔Psychologist who adapted the hero's journey for modern
audiences
✔✔Follow your bliss - ✔✔Campbell's idea that people should follow the path that gives
life meaning
✔✔Ordinary world - ✔✔The hero's normal life before the adventure begins
✔✔Call to adventure - ✔✔The moment the hero is invited or forced into a new
challenge
✔✔Refusal of the call - ✔✔The hero first resists the journey because of fear or
insecurity
✔✔Meeting the mentor - ✔✔The hero receives guidance wisdom or training from a
helper
✔✔Crossing the first threshold - ✔✔The hero leaves the ordinary world and enters the
unknown
✔✔Point of no return - ✔✔The moment when the hero's life cannot go back to how it
was before
✔✔Tests allies and enemies - ✔✔Stage where the hero faces challenges and learns
who helps or opposes them
✔✔Approach to the innermost cave - ✔✔The hero moves toward the deepest fear or
greatest danger
✔✔Innermost cave - ✔✔Place or inner conflict where the hero must face what they fear
most
✔✔Dragon symbol - ✔✔Represents the fear or challenge guarding the greatest reward
✔✔The ordeal - ✔✔The hero's biggest crisis or life-changing challenge
✔✔Symbolic death and rebirth - ✔✔The hero changes by letting an old self die and
becoming stronger
✔✔The reward - ✔✔The hero gains knowledge healing love power or a meaningful
prize
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Kierkegaard on meaning - ✔✔A true self is formed by commitment to something
outside oneself
✔✔Existentialism - ✔✔Philosophy focused on individual existence choice and authentic
life
✔✔Camus' absurdism - ✔✔The view that life has no ultimate meaning but people
should still live freely and passionately
✔✔Camus on the self - ✔✔The self is not a soul to uncover but a body will and capacity
for action
✔✔Joseph Campbell - ✔✔Scholar who developed the hero's journey as a pattern found
in myths and stories
✔✔Hero's journey - ✔✔A cycle of stages where a hero leaves ordinary life faces
challenges and returns transformed
✔✔The Hero with a Thousand Faces - ✔✔Joseph Campbell's major book about the
hero's journey
✔✔George Lucas and Campbell - ✔✔Campbell's hero's journey strongly influenced Star
Wars
✔✔Hero's journey purpose - ✔✔Shows self transformation growth awareness and
empowerment
✔✔Seventeen stages - ✔✔Campbell's original version of the hero's journey had
seventeen stages
, ✔✔Twelve stages - ✔✔Hollywood simplified the hero's journey into twelve common
stages
✔✔Carol Pearson - ✔✔Psychologist who adapted the hero's journey for modern
audiences
✔✔Follow your bliss - ✔✔Campbell's idea that people should follow the path that gives
life meaning
✔✔Ordinary world - ✔✔The hero's normal life before the adventure begins
✔✔Call to adventure - ✔✔The moment the hero is invited or forced into a new
challenge
✔✔Refusal of the call - ✔✔The hero first resists the journey because of fear or
insecurity
✔✔Meeting the mentor - ✔✔The hero receives guidance wisdom or training from a
helper
✔✔Crossing the first threshold - ✔✔The hero leaves the ordinary world and enters the
unknown
✔✔Point of no return - ✔✔The moment when the hero's life cannot go back to how it
was before
✔✔Tests allies and enemies - ✔✔Stage where the hero faces challenges and learns
who helps or opposes them
✔✔Approach to the innermost cave - ✔✔The hero moves toward the deepest fear or
greatest danger
✔✔Innermost cave - ✔✔Place or inner conflict where the hero must face what they fear
most
✔✔Dragon symbol - ✔✔Represents the fear or challenge guarding the greatest reward
✔✔The ordeal - ✔✔The hero's biggest crisis or life-changing challenge
✔✔Symbolic death and rebirth - ✔✔The hero changes by letting an old self die and
becoming stronger
✔✔The reward - ✔✔The hero gains knowledge healing love power or a meaningful
prize
