Responsible Driving

Chapter 18: Alcohol and Other Drugs and Driving

Handling Social Pressures

Select the phrase that best completes each sentence below. Write the letter of the answer you have chosen to the left of each statement.

_____1. A hallucinogen that makes a user drowsy and distorts reaction time and judgment of time and space is (pg. 384)

a. cocaine.

b. PCP.

c. a barbiturate.

d. marijuana.

_____2. Other drugs that can impair your ability to drive are (pg. 382)

a. some prescription

b. most illegal drugs

c. some non-prescription drugs

d. all the above

_____3. Alcohol has the greatest effect on (pg. 378)

a. the heart

b. speech

c. the brain

d. the stomach

_____4. Alcohol is classified as a (pg. 377)

a. depressant.

b. stimulant.

c. hallucinogen.

d. narcotic.

_____5. The way to sober up a person who has had too much to drink is to (pg. 377)

a. give the person black coffee.

b. make the person take a cold shower.

c. make the person exercise.

d. give the alcohol time to wear off.

_____6. A person's ________________ is/are affected by alcohol. (pg. 380)

a. vision

b. judgment

c. coordination

d. all of the above

_____7. Regarding alcohol and driving, it is false that (pg. 380)

a. 40 percent of all highway deaths are alcohol related.

b. about 24% of young drivers aged 16 to 20 who die in highway crashes is intoxicated.