How did Tom and Myrtle's affair get covered up? The great Gatsby ch 9 use examples from text please

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"I can see no reason to doubt but the imposition of taxes, whether on trade, or on land, or houses, or ships, on real or personal, fixed ort floating property, in the colonies is absolutely irreconcilable with the rights of the colonists as British subjects and as men. I say men, for in a state of nature no man can take my property from me without my consent: if he does, he deprives me of my liberty and makes me a slave."

—James Otis, 1763

Based on this excerpt, what do you think Otis's purpose was in writing this document? (5 points)

Group of answer choices

To sell

To conquer

To persuade

To describe

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