The Postcard Collectors

What has somewhat supplanted the tradition of sending postcards on vacation?

• sending emails with pictures
• sending pictures through a text message
• posting pictures on social media
• video calling on Skype

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What does the author describe in the passage?

• the hobby of postcard collecting
• a collection of postcards from the 20th century
  a collection of postcards from the 20th century
• members of the Metropolitan Postcard club of New York City
• different types of postcards that can be bought in New York City

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Emotions can run high as collectors hunt for new cards at postcard conventions.  What evidence supports this conclusion?

• "The collectors who were there to buy cards would sometimes walk up to the collectors selling cards and ask them if they had a particular type of card."
• "Excuse me, and old woman asked a man. ' Do you have any postcards of a hotel?"
• "I do, 'said the man. 'From where?' 'Miami Beach, ' said the woman."
• “’Darn,’ said the man, throwing up his hands. ‘I’m all out.’ The woman scowled.”

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Collectors enjoy postcard shows because of the fun of trading postcards. Based on the passage, why else might collectors enjoy postcard shows?

• They enjoy the pressure of trying to find the postcards they are looking for.
• They enjoy interacting with other collectors and learning about their past.
• They enjoy trading in ballrooms.
• They enjoy advertising the postcard shows on different social media sites.

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What is this passage mainly about?

• a postcard collecting convention in New York City
• why “real photo postcards” are valuable
• Lisa, a collector with over 100,000 postcards
• postcard collectors and why they are drawn to the hobby

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Read the following sentence: “When he died, he left behind more than 100,000 cards, cached at random in a jumble of albums, envelopes and shoe boxes, all crammed into a special annex to the garage, built explicitly for their preservation.”
What does “cached” mean?

• stored
• jammed
• fixed
• thrown out

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Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.  

Each collector has a different type of postcard he or she is looking for; ___________, some people collect only postcards with photos of New York, while others are only interested in postcards with cats on them.

• first
• in contrast
• for instance
• moreover

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