They had to fight hard to gain independence. 1) the
2) an
3) those
4) (none of the above)

2)an

My Logic:

an is used before words starting with vowles and a is used before words beginning in consonants. How i know its an? none of the other make sense in that position . For example we are not talking ablot Those independance.

Hope this helps!

sorry if im wrong.

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