What is the full name of the main character in the contender? 7. where does the contender take place? 8. what is the name of the main character’s best friend in the contender? 9. during which decade is the contender set? 10. in what year was the contender published?

protagonist · Alfred Brooks

setting (place) · New York City, primarily Harlem

James Mosley

setting (time) · The book takes place in relatively modern times, perhaps within the decade of the 1970s.

1967

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.