In which of the following ways can alcoholic beverages affect you?
- It slows your reaction time.
- It gives you a feeling of false confidence.
- It impairs your thinking ability.
- All of the above. ✓
Answer: D. All of the above.
Alcohol can affect you in all of these ways: it slows your reaction time, it gives you a feeling of false confidence, and it impairs your thinking ability.
Why this is the answer
The handbook explains that when a person drinks alcohol, one of the first things to go is judgment, and sight is impaired too, so reactions to sounds get slower and judging another vehicle's speed becomes hard. It adds that a person's ability to reason can nearly disappear, and describes poor decisions like handing over the car keys. Slower reactions plus weakened reasoning and judgment line up with all three listed effects, so the combined choice fits.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. It slows your reaction time. — Slowed reaction time is real, but the handbook lists other effects as well, so this alone is incomplete.
- B. It gives you a feeling of false confidence. — False confidence fits the handbook's example of bad judgment after drinking, but it is only one of the effects described.
- C. It impairs your thinking ability. — Impaired thinking is described in the handbook through lost judgment and reasoning, but picking only this leaves out the other effects.
Remember it
Think of alcohol as hitting three things at once: how fast you react, how well you reason, and how sure of yourself you feel.