Indiana Permit Test: Alcohol & Drugs Practice Questions

Correct answer: 0.08

Operating a vehicle while intoxicated or with a BAC over the legal limit of .08 is a criminal offense that immediately affects your driving privileges.

Source: Chapter 5: Points, Suspensions, and Insurance Requirements – Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated

Correct answer: Body weight

The primary factors in BAC are the amount of alcohol consumed, how quickly it is consumed, and the person's body weight.

Source: Chapter 5: Points, Suspensions, and Insurance Requirements – Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated

Correct answer: 180 days

A motorist who fails a chemical test faces a 180-day suspension of driving privileges.

Source: Chapter 5: Points, Suspensions, and Insurance Requirements – Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated

Correct answer: A one-year suspension

Refusing a chemical test brings a one-year suspension, longer than the 180 days for failing one.

Source: Chapter 5: Points, Suspensions, and Insurance Requirements – Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated

Correct answer: Two years

A motorist with a prior OWI conviction who refuses a chemical test faces a two-year suspension.

Source: Chapter 5: Points, Suspensions, and Insurance Requirements – Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated

Correct answer: Checks the driver's breath alcohol before the car will start

An ignition interlock device tests the driver's blood alcohol level before the vehicle can be started.

Source: Chapter 5: Points, Suspensions, and Insurance Requirements – Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated

Correct answer: Your driving privileges face the same OWI penalties

A watercraft OWI conviction is sent to the BMV, becomes part of your driver record, and carries the same driving-privilege penalties as a motor vehicle OWI.

Source: Chapter 5: Points, Suspensions, and Insurance Requirements – Operating a Watercraft While Intoxicated

Correct answer: A 10-year suspension

Three judgments within 10 years for listed major offenses, including driving while intoxicated, make a driver a habitual traffic violator with a 10-year suspension.

Source: Chapter 5: Points, Suspensions, and Insurance Requirements – Habitual Traffic Violators

Correct answer: A lifetime suspension

Two judgments within 10 years for OWI resulting in death, or driving with a BAC of .08 or more resulting in death, bring a lifetime suspension.

Source: Chapter 5: Points, Suspensions, and Insurance Requirements – Habitual Traffic Violators

Correct answer: It impairs thinking and coordination and slows your reaction time

Alcohol harms your brain's ability to think clearly and your physical coordination, and it decreases your reaction time.

Source: Chapter 8: Accidents and Emergency Situations – Impaired Driving

Correct answer: Read the label and ask a physician or pharmacist about side effects

Many prescription and over-the-counter drugs can impair reasoning and coordination. Check the label and discuss side effects with a physician or pharmacist before driving.

Source: Chapter 8: Accidents and Emergency Situations – Impaired Driving

Correct answer: Straddling the center line or weaving

Signs of an impaired driver include wide turns, straddling the center line or weaving, unusual speeds, stopping for no reason, and driving at night without headlights.

Source: Chapter 8: Accidents and Emergency Situations – Impaired Driving

Correct answer: It can impair you about as much as a .08 BAC

Studies show that going 18 hours without sleep leaves a driver about as impaired as a driver with a .08 BAC, the legal limit.

Source: Chapter 8: Accidents and Emergency Situations – Impaired Driving

Correct answer: 0.02

Indiana's zero-tolerance rule makes it a Class C infraction for a driver under 21 to have a BAC of at least .02 (IC 9-30-5-8.5). Drinking any alcohol before driving is the only safe choice.

Source: Indiana Code 9-30-5-8.5 (not stated in the driver’s manual)

Correct answer: The Juvenile Court

When a driver under 18 is cited for OWI, the Juvenile Court may also recommend a suspension of driving privileges.

Source: Chapter 5: Points, Suspensions, and Insurance Requirements – Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated