15 December is International Tea Day. Writers, too, have not neglected this noble beverage. The BSAA Library invites you to take part in the 'Tea drinking in literature" quiz. 

The quiz features books that glorify or mention tea (or the tea ceremony). Prerequisite: recollect the names of the works from the questions below.

Bring your answers to the library or email them to library.bsaa@gmail.com. And win a prize if all the answers are correct!

1. The heroine of which contemporary love novel believes that any problem can be solved with tea?
2. The craziest tea party in foreign literature?
3. In which piece of poetry, the visiting female protagonist had three cups of tea "with milk and a pretzel" each.
4. Evening tea drinking was not alien to the nobility, who lived at their manor in the village. Which work of the great Russian writer Alexander Pushkin describes a tea party scene, where tea is poured by his adult daughter, according to the tea-drinking rules of the time?
5. In which English story does the nanny-enchantress drink tea with her children in an unusual way?
6. Which children's book's hero had tea and cheesecakes in the company of the fairy and the cat at Baba-Yaga's house?
7. Name the author and the title of a collection of stories in which the characters drink tea, and the authors tell readers how to brew it.
8. What was the name of an elderly lady in the novels of a famous English novelist who solves intricate detective problems with a cup of tea.
9. In which novel by the famous English novelist Charlotte Brontë does the headmistress of an orphanage treat the girls to tea?
10. In which work by the Russian classic Anton Chekhov do the characters have a continuous tea party?

Image - "At the Tea Table", Konstantin Korovin.