Hogbetsotso Festival

The Hogbetsotso festival is celebrated by...

• the Ashanti people in Ghana.

• the people in Togo.

• the people in Nigeria.

• the Anloga people in Ghana.

What is the meaning of hogbetsotso?

• festival of lights

• festival of exodus

• festival of harvest

• festival of birth

Identify the traditional dance performed during the hogbetsotso festival.

• Adjectives

• Azonto

• Agbadza

• Akwaaba

when is the festival celebrated?

• first sunday in november

• first saturday in december

• first sunday in december

• first saturday in november

Notsie is a town in present day ....

• Namibia

• Togo

• Mali

• Niger

Where do the Ewes believe that the ancestral spirits reside?

• ceremonial stools

• a black pot

• an ancient mud house

• a graven image

I am a ceremony held during the festival in which all disputes are settled. Who am I?

• bull slaughtering ceremony

• peace making ceremony

• rice picking ceremony

• purification ceremony

I am a ceremony held during the festival in which ceremonial stools are cleansed. Who am I?

• bull slaughtering ceremony

• peace making ceremony

• rice picking ceremony

• purification ceremony

What is the climax of the festival?

• cleaning the community

• sharing food for the ancestors

• A durbar of the chiefs and people

• dancing in front of the chiefs

How did the people of Anlo escape from the the wicked king, Togbe Agorkoli?

• they were rescued by the Ashantis

• they

  walked backwards with their faces towards the town

• they went to war with the king and defeated them

• they created a hole in the mud wall that

  surrounded their town