BASSET EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
21 years of age - Answers -Legal drinking age
The place or location where alcoholic beverages are manufactured, stored, displayed,
or offered for sale or where drinks containing alcoholic beverages are mixed, concocted
and served for consumption - Answers -Premises
The product of distillation of any fermented liquid, whether rectified or diluted, whatever
may be the origin thereof, and includes synthetic ethyl alcohol - Answers -Alcohol
The sale of any alcoholic beverage for consumption off the premises where sold (e.g.,
at stores, etc.) - Answers -Off-Premises
The result of a process where distilled spirits have been flavor enhanced by adding
natural elements such as fruit, nuts, herbs or spices. These elements soak in the spirits
releasing their unique flavors for a predetermined amount of time creating infusions or
infused spirits - Answers -Infusions
Any public place kept, used, maintained, advertised and held out to the public as a
place where meals are served, and where meals are actually and regularly served,
without sleeping accommodations, such as being provided with adequate and sanitary
kitchen and dining room equipment and capacity and having employees to prepare,
cook and serve suitable food for its guests - Answers -Restaurant
The sale of any alcoholic beverage for consumption on the premises where sold (e.g.,
at bars, restaurants, hotels, etc.) - Answers -On-Premises
liquors, and such liquors when rectified, blended or otherwise mixed with alcohol or
other substances - Answers -Spirits
A person who is not of legal drinking age; i.e., a person who is under 21 years of age -
Answers -Underage Person
A person under 18 years of age - Answers -Minor
Abbreviation for blood alcohol content, which is a measurement of the concentration of
alcohol in the blood - Answers -BAC
Consuming alcohol mixed with energy drinks makes a person appear more intoxicated
than they really are. True or false? - Answers -False
The liver metabolizes or eliminates approximately _____________ per hour - Answers -
1 standard drink
, When alcohol is consumed, it is not digested the way food is. Alcohol is absorbed
directly into the bloodstream - Answers -After entering the body through the mouth and
throat, the alcohol passes down the esophagus, then through the stomach, and finally
through the small intestine, and into the bloodstreaam
According to the principle of basic equivalency, a standard serving of wine is - Answers
-5 ounces
Consuming alcohol mixed with energy drinks - Answers -Can diminish the typical signs
of intoxication
Alcohol must be digested before it enters the bloodstream. True or false? - Answers -
False, it is absorbed directly into the bloodstream. This absorption starts almost
immediately after a drink is consumed
Any alcoholic beverage obtained by the fermentation of the natural contents of fruits, or
vegetables, containing sugar, including such beverages when fortified by the addition of
alcohol or spirits - Answers -Wine
Includes alcohol, spirits, wine and beer, and every liquid or solid, patented or not,
containing alcohol, spirits, wine or beer, and capable of being consumed as a beverage
by a human being - Answers -Alcoholic Liquor
A beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or concoction of
barley, or other grain, malt and hops in water, and includes, among other things, beer,
ale, stout, lager beer, porter and the like - Answers -Beer
A person who sells, or offers for sale, alcoholic liquor for use or consumption and not for
resale in any form - Answers -Retailer
Any beverage which contains alcohol obtained by distillation, mixed with water or other
substance in solution, and includes brandy, rum, whiskey, gin, or other spirituous
As along as a person eats food while he/she is drinking, he/she will not become
intoxicated. True or false? - Answers -False, food does not keep a person from
becoming intoxicated; it just slows the rate that the body absorbs alcohol
At a BAC of .05, what are the predictable effects on driving? - Answers -Reduced
coordination, reduced ability to track moving objects, difficulty steering, reduced
response to emergency driving situations
What are some of the predictable effects alcohol has on driving ability? - Answers -.08
BAC: Impaired perception, reduced information processing capability and short-term
memory loss
.10 BAC: Reduced ability to maintain lane position and brake appropriately