Picking up event from inline `onclick` handler

HTML

<a id="link"  onhover="console.log('hello')" href="http://www.example.com">Text</a>

JavaScript

function test(event) {
    event = event || window.event;
    var name = prompt("Some question / text")
    if (name.toLowerCase() === "texttoblock") {
        alert("text");
        event.preventDefault();   // block link from working
    } else {
    }
};