TN DRIVERS PERMIT CORE EXAM SET 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Which of these drugs could affect your driving ability? - ✔✔Marijuana
A cold remedy
A tranquilizer
✔✔If you are taking a non-perscription drug, what should you do before driving? -
✔✔Check the label for warnings about its effects
✔✔What can reduce the effects of alcohol? - ✔✔Only time can reduce alcohol's effect
✔✔The first effect of alcohol is on your - ✔✔Judgement making ability
✔✔Where in the body is alcohol synthesized? - ✔✔liver
✔✔At what rate is alcohol synthesized in the liver? - ✔✔one drink per hour
✔✔1st DUI conviction - ✔✔$350-$1500 fine, 48 hours in jail (7 days if BAC over 0.20%),
license revoked for a year
✔✔2nd DUI conviction - ✔✔$600-$3500 fine, 45 days to 12 months in jail, license
revoked for 2 years, vehicle subject to seizure
✔✔3rd DUI conviction - ✔✔$1100-$10,000 fine, 120 days to 12 months in jail, license
revoked for 3-10 years, vehicle subject to seizure
✔✔4th or more DUI conviction - ✔✔Class E felony, $3000-$15,000 fine, 150 days to
maximum allowed days in jail, license revoked for 5 years to a possible indefinite
revocation, vehicle subject to seizure
✔✔How long does it take for alcohol to be absorbed into the bloodstream after taking a
drink? - ✔✔one to two minutes
✔✔When does intoxication occur? - ✔✔when you drink alcohol faster than the liver acn
oxidize it
✔✔What is required to make an intoxicated person more sober? - ✔✔time
✔✔What does BAC stand for? - ✔✔blood alcohol concentration (a measurement of the
percentage of alcohol in the blood)
✔✔What factors affect BAC? - ✔✔body weight, time spent drinking, and amount of
alcohol consumed
, ✔✔What increases the BAC? - ✔✔each drink consumed within one hour (the more you
drink within a fixed amount of time, the higher the BAC will be)
✔✔Alcohol is NOT dissolved in _________. - ✔✔fat
✔✔Since alcohol is only dissolved in water (not fat), a person with higher body fat will
get intoxicated ____________________ than someone who weighs the same but has
less body fat. - ✔✔more quickly
✔✔What can slow the rate at which alcohol is absorbed into the bloodstream and thus
slow the rate of intoxication? - ✔✔food in the stomach
✔✔With a BAC of 0.10%, you are _________ times more likely to cause a car crash
than if you were sober. - ✔✔seven
✔✔When your BAC goes up to 0.15%, your chances of causing a car crash increases
to __________ times more likely than if you were sober. - ✔✔twenty-five
✔✔When your BAC goes up to 0.17%, your chances of causing a car crash increases
to __________ times more likely than if you were sober. - ✔✔fifty
✔✔With BAC levels as low as 0.03-0.04%, research has proven that what aspects of
driving skills are affected? - ✔✔good judgment, vision, reaction time and coordination,
alertness and concentration
✔✔BAC 0.01-0.03% (1 drink within 15 minutes) - ✔✔risk of a crash rises for young
adults and others with low alcohol tolerance, stiff penalties for people under the age of
21
✔✔BAC 0.04-0.07% (2 drinks within 30 minutes) - ✔✔definite risk of crash for anyone
with low alcohol tolerance, most people feel "high" and have some loss of judgment as
well as loss of small muscle control (like focusing eyes)
✔✔BAC 0.08% or above - ✔✔LEGAL INTOXICATION (judgment and reasoning powers
are severely hampered, cannot do simple acts, definitely unsafe to drive)
✔✔BAC 0.10-0.12% (4 drinks within 2 hours) - ✔✔risk of crash increases to 7 times the
norm, judgment loss increases
✔✔BAC 0.13-0.15% (5-7 drinks within 3 hours) - ✔✔risk of crash increases to 25 times
the norm, far less muscle control, feel happy and may be stumbling and acting foolishly
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Which of these drugs could affect your driving ability? - ✔✔Marijuana
A cold remedy
A tranquilizer
✔✔If you are taking a non-perscription drug, what should you do before driving? -
✔✔Check the label for warnings about its effects
✔✔What can reduce the effects of alcohol? - ✔✔Only time can reduce alcohol's effect
✔✔The first effect of alcohol is on your - ✔✔Judgement making ability
✔✔Where in the body is alcohol synthesized? - ✔✔liver
✔✔At what rate is alcohol synthesized in the liver? - ✔✔one drink per hour
✔✔1st DUI conviction - ✔✔$350-$1500 fine, 48 hours in jail (7 days if BAC over 0.20%),
license revoked for a year
✔✔2nd DUI conviction - ✔✔$600-$3500 fine, 45 days to 12 months in jail, license
revoked for 2 years, vehicle subject to seizure
✔✔3rd DUI conviction - ✔✔$1100-$10,000 fine, 120 days to 12 months in jail, license
revoked for 3-10 years, vehicle subject to seizure
✔✔4th or more DUI conviction - ✔✔Class E felony, $3000-$15,000 fine, 150 days to
maximum allowed days in jail, license revoked for 5 years to a possible indefinite
revocation, vehicle subject to seizure
✔✔How long does it take for alcohol to be absorbed into the bloodstream after taking a
drink? - ✔✔one to two minutes
✔✔When does intoxication occur? - ✔✔when you drink alcohol faster than the liver acn
oxidize it
✔✔What is required to make an intoxicated person more sober? - ✔✔time
✔✔What does BAC stand for? - ✔✔blood alcohol concentration (a measurement of the
percentage of alcohol in the blood)
✔✔What factors affect BAC? - ✔✔body weight, time spent drinking, and amount of
alcohol consumed
, ✔✔What increases the BAC? - ✔✔each drink consumed within one hour (the more you
drink within a fixed amount of time, the higher the BAC will be)
✔✔Alcohol is NOT dissolved in _________. - ✔✔fat
✔✔Since alcohol is only dissolved in water (not fat), a person with higher body fat will
get intoxicated ____________________ than someone who weighs the same but has
less body fat. - ✔✔more quickly
✔✔What can slow the rate at which alcohol is absorbed into the bloodstream and thus
slow the rate of intoxication? - ✔✔food in the stomach
✔✔With a BAC of 0.10%, you are _________ times more likely to cause a car crash
than if you were sober. - ✔✔seven
✔✔When your BAC goes up to 0.15%, your chances of causing a car crash increases
to __________ times more likely than if you were sober. - ✔✔twenty-five
✔✔When your BAC goes up to 0.17%, your chances of causing a car crash increases
to __________ times more likely than if you were sober. - ✔✔fifty
✔✔With BAC levels as low as 0.03-0.04%, research has proven that what aspects of
driving skills are affected? - ✔✔good judgment, vision, reaction time and coordination,
alertness and concentration
✔✔BAC 0.01-0.03% (1 drink within 15 minutes) - ✔✔risk of a crash rises for young
adults and others with low alcohol tolerance, stiff penalties for people under the age of
21
✔✔BAC 0.04-0.07% (2 drinks within 30 minutes) - ✔✔definite risk of crash for anyone
with low alcohol tolerance, most people feel "high" and have some loss of judgment as
well as loss of small muscle control (like focusing eyes)
✔✔BAC 0.08% or above - ✔✔LEGAL INTOXICATION (judgment and reasoning powers
are severely hampered, cannot do simple acts, definitely unsafe to drive)
✔✔BAC 0.10-0.12% (4 drinks within 2 hours) - ✔✔risk of crash increases to 7 times the
norm, judgment loss increases
✔✔BAC 0.13-0.15% (5-7 drinks within 3 hours) - ✔✔risk of crash increases to 25 times
the norm, far less muscle control, feel happy and may be stumbling and acting foolishly
