E. Digby Baltzell's study, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, showed that a very high number of "top achievers" listed in the Dictionary of American Biography came from ________

a. the South.
b. Pennsylvania.
c. Massachusetts.
d. Philadelphia.


Answer: c

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