Do your neighbors burn one another alive? was how Fraa Orolo began his conversation with Artisan Flec.
Do your shamans walk around on stilts? Fraa Orolo asked, reading from a leaf that, judging by its brownness, was at least five centuries old. Then he looked up and added helpfully, You might call them pastors or witch doctors.
When a child gets sick, do you pray? Sacrifice to a painted stick? Or blame it on an old lady?
Do you fancy you will see your dead dogs and cats in some sort of afterlife?

Part 1, Provener; The questionnaire, in use for 1,100 years, is used once every ten years to determine if civilization outside the monastic compound is beginning to regress. - Anathem (2008)