What is the tense of the underlined verb?

this morning i brought my family blackberries from the bushes near our house.

a.
past perfect

b.
present

c.
past

d.
future

Almost all epidemics followed the same pattern, striking during warm weather, disappearing with the first hard frost. ... Most doctors had predicted the fever would end when the cold weather returned. ... Daniel Defoe, in recording the end of the Black Death that visited London in 1665, wrote that "the winter weather came on ...