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Torak woke with a jolt from a sleep he'd never meant to have. The fire had burned low. He crouched in the fragile shell of light and peered into the looming blackness of the Forest. He couldn't see anything. Couldn't hear anything. Had it come back? Was it out there now, watching him with its hot, evil eyes? He felt hollow and cold. He knew that he badly needed food, and that his arm hurt, and his eyes were scratchy with tiredness, but he couldn't really feel it. All night he'd guarded the wreck of the shelter and watched his father mending. How could this be happening? Only

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Only yesterday—yesterday—they'd pitched camp in the blue autumn dusk. Torak had made a joke, and his father was laughing. Then the Forest exploded. Ravens screamed. Pines cracked. And out of the dark beneath the trees surged a deeper darkness: a huge rampaging menace in bear form. Suddenly, death was upon them. A frenzy of claws. A welter of sound to make the ears bleed. In a heartbeat, the creature had smashed their shelter to splinters. In a heartbeat, it had wounded his father's side. Then it was gone, melting into the Forest as silently as mist. But what kind of bear stalks men and then vanishes without eating them? What kind of bear plays with its prey? And where was it now? Torak couldn't see beyond the firelight, but he knew that the clearing, too, was a wreck of snapped saplings and trampled bracken. He smelled pine-blood and clawed earth. He heard the soft, sad bubbling of the stream thirty paces away. The bear could be anywhere. Beside him, his father moaned. Slowly, he opened his eyes and looked at his son without recognition. Torak's heart clenched. "Fa, it-it's me," he stammered. "How do you feel?" adapted from Wolf Brother: The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Book 1 by Michelle Paver

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5. Which statement is the best summary of the passage? A boy, Torak, wakes up from a deep sleep. He is mad at himself for falling asleep. His father makes a sound, and Torak moves over to him. Torak is a young boy camping with his father. He wakes up after falling asleep from being so tired. He checks on the fire and listens for bears. A young boy, Torak, is tired, hungry, and hurt. He cares for his father and keeps watch for trouble after their shelter was attacked by a bear. A bear waits in the Forest for Torak. It attacked Torak's shelter once but was not really hungry. The bear waits to attack the young boy again.

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