Question 6 • FL-2109010-M/J World History A - Teacher Directed Resource
Read the passage.In this year came dreadful forewarnings over the land of Northumbria, terrifying the people most woefully: these were immense sheets of lightning and whirlwinds, and fiery dragons were seen flying through the sky. . . . And not long after . . . the harrowing inroads of heathen men destroyed the church of God in Lindisfarne.–The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 800 CE
Answer
A
Dragons attacked Northumbria.
B
Northumbria was attacked by wind.
C
Sheets of lightning terrified the Northumbrian people.
D
The people of Northumbria were terrified by the heathen men who are invading.