District of Columbia Permit Test: Alcohol & Drugs Practice Questions

Correct answer: The Ignition Interlock Device (IID) Program

Any person guilty of impaired driving must enroll in and complete the IID Program, installing IIDs on all registered vehicles.

Source: Introduction – Vision Zero, Distracted & Impaired Driving

Correct answer: About one-third

Alcohol-impaired driving accounts for about one-third of traffic deaths, and drugs are involved in about 18%.

Source: Introduction – Vision Zero, Distracted & Impaired Driving

Correct answer: Food in the stomach

Factors include how quickly you drink, body weight, food in the stomach, alcohol concentration, medications, and fatigue, stress and mood.

Source: Introduction – Vision Zero, Distracted & Impaired Driving

Correct answer: Just as much, sometimes more

Sleep deprivation affects driving just as much, and sometimes more, than alcohol.

Source: Introduction – Vision Zero, Distracted & Impaired Driving

Correct answer: Getting adequate sleep

Rolling down windows or turning up music has little effect and caffeine only helps briefly; adequate sleep is the best prevention.

Source: Introduction – Vision Zero, Distracted & Impaired Driving

Correct answer: They can make your driving more dangerous

Don’t depend on stay-awake drugs; they are apt to make your driving even more dangerous.

Source: Distracted Driver Syndrome, Fatigue & Cellular Phones

Correct answer: About 18%

Drugs are involved in about 18% of traffic-related deaths.

Source: Introduction – Vision Zero, Distracted & Impaired Driving

Correct answer: 2 years

Minimum revocation is 6 months first offense, 1 year second, 2 years third or subsequent.

Source: Important Things to Know

Correct answer: Alcohol, drugs or sleepiness

Operating a vehicle while affected by alcohol, legal or illicit drugs, and sleepiness is all impaired driving.

Source: Introduction – Vision Zero, Distracted & Impaired Driving