Question 2
How do the intermolecular attractions between water molecules compare with the bonds within one?
The right answer is the one marked above.
Weaker than the covalent bonds inside a water molecule. Boiling shows it: the heat separates the molecules into steam without breaking any of them apart.
If they were as strong as, or stronger than, the covalent bonds, then heating water would decompose it into hydrogen and oxygen rather than turning it into steam — which is plainly not what a kettle does.