> Then your answer should have been "no". Remember, the very first example is a paragraph, and it asks you if it makes a request for an image, I don't see you getting into the same rage about that.

There's a fairly huge difference between how browsers handle HTML and JS. After fully parsing HTML, the DOM tree is completely built and once resources are loaded, the page is completely rendered. It's declarative. Code is different. No JS interpreter runs a function you define until you call it. So code is parsed and then later on, independent of its parsing, can do things.

When you're asking if code does something, especially in the context of an event listener, it's expected you're actually running the code, regardless of how you've presented it. The HTML equivalent would have been to have asked if opening index.html here would've caused an alert to be shown.

    <!-- index.html -->
    <a href="image.html">Click me to see a funny picture.</a>

    <!-- image.html -->
    <img src="catpic1029381859834.png">
    <script>
        alert('I hope you like my cat!');
    </script>

A quiz should be testing actual understanding/knowledge, not intermixing over-literal interpretations and breaking reader expectations. And the wording on the question is still wrong, because as I pointed out, the sans-user-action point is emphasizing the page reload event, not the code itself, so the only logical interpretation is that the resize event happens. Technically, this could still very well happen without user interaction: consider gravity pulling out a display cable and causing the window to be relocated/resized by the OS.

> It's a difficult quiz, no one's expected to get everything right.

Incorrect. It's a deceitful quiz. The delivery is excellent sans a few load-time render issues, but the content needs work.