Gatsby Quote Identification

It was a body capable of enormous leverage – a cruel body. ”

• George Wilson
• Gatsby
• Tom
• Nick

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

...an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her were continually smoldering....

• Daisy
• Jordan
• Myrtle
• Catherine

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

She left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied  about it.

• Jordan
• Daisy
• Catherine
• Myrtle

a blond, spiritless man, anemic, and faintly handsome

• Tom
• Gatsby
• Nick
• George Wilson

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

inclined to reserve all judgments . . . privy to the secret griefs of wild,  unknown men

• Gatsby
• Nick
• Tom
• Daisy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.  Sophisticated – God, I'm sophisticated!

• Nick
• Jordan
• Myrtle
• Daisy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races  have control of things.

• Tom
• Nick
• Daisy
• Myrtle

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I decided to go East and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was  the bond business, so I supposed it could support one more single man.

• Gatsby
• Klipspringer
• Meyer Wolfsheim
• Nick

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I’m going to tell you something about my life. I don’t want you to get  wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear.

• Gatsby
• Tom
• Jordan
• George Wilson

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

She carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.

• Mrs. McKee
• Catherine
• Myrtle
• Jordan

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3