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1. In which culture does a married woman wear a red mark called a ki'sain on her forehead to indicate that she pledges her sons to fight the Shadow?
2. If you were a male Ogier of marriageable age, who would be in charge of finding you a wife?
3. If you were a woman in Altara, what could you expect to receive as a wedding present from your husband?
4. In which culture do marriage customs create equality by acknowledging that one partner may be of a higher rank in society than the other, and requiring that higher-ranked individual to submit to their spouse in private?
5. True or False: In "New Spring", we learn of a curious custom among Taraboners, that a young person takes an older first lover to instruct them in the ways of sex and relationships, and a young person in this sort of relationship wears their hair in a long braid that the older partner can use to signal control in the relationship
6. Among the Aiel, a woman proposes marriage to a man by setting what item at the man's feet?
7. In which culture can a marriage be performed between two people very far away from one another, if they both announce three times that the other person is now their spouse?
8. Rand's unusual relationship status with Aviendha, Min, and Elayne would be most accepted in which culture?
9. In Saldaea, married couples celebrate each year because their marriage has survived, and, according to Faile, because neither of them has been killed by trollocs. What is the name of this celebration, which means "remembrance" in the Old Tongue?
10. In which culture does a young woman announce that she is old enough to be courted for marriage by braiding her hair and dancing around the Bel Tine pole?
11. If you were a member of the Seanchan High Blood, who would you be prohibited from marrying?
12. True or False: Aes Sedai in the Third Age are prohibited from marrying.
13. Among Aiel, the Far Dareis Mai (Maidens of the Spear) are said to be "wedded to the spear", and any who wish to marry a man must give up her spears forever. They are not prohibited from having lovers, though, and sometimes men who wish to be a Maiden's lover will arrange to be taken gai'shain by her. The Maidens are disdainful of this practice, however, and make these gai'shain perform what embarrassing service?
14. In every nation in the Westlands, rulers and nobles can be expected to marry for political gain. In which small nation, however, does the current ruler deliberately remain unmarried in order to play various other nations against one another with a series of romantic liaisons, actual or suggested?
15. While we have thus far not seen any culture that practices same-sex marriage in the Westlands, same-sex relationships do exist. What is the name in the White Tower for a relationship between two women?
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