Alcohol:
- Slows reflexes and reaction time. ✓
- Puts you to sleep.
- Wakes you up.
- Improves your judgment.
Answer: A. Slows reflexes and reaction time.
Alcohol slows your reflexes and reaction time, which are skills you need to drive safely.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says alcohol reduces the skills needed for safe driving, including judgment, reaction, vision, and concentration. It spells out that alcohol slows your reflexes and reaction time, makes you less alert, and makes it harder to judge distance, speed, and the movement of other vehicles. Because a slower reaction means you respond later to hazards, the answer that describes alcohol as slowing reflexes and reaction time fits what the handbook states.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Puts you to sleep. — The handbook does not say alcohol puts you to sleep; it says alcohol makes you less alert, which is not the same thing as making you sleep.
- C. Wakes you up. — Nothing in the handbook says alcohol wakes you up; it describes alcohol as reducing alertness and driving skills, not sharpening them.
- D. Improves your judgment. — The handbook says judgment is the first thing affected after drinking and that alcohol reduces it, so alcohol harms judgment rather than improving it.
Remember it
Think of alcohol as a brake on your brain: everything you need to react to the road gets slower, starting with judgment.