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Nebraska Motorcycle: Alcohol, Drugs & Impairment practice test
Blood alcohol limits, zero-tolerance and implied-consent laws, and how alcohol and drugs — legal or not — affect your driving.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. Which three factors does the manual call the primary influences on blood alcohol concentration?
Correct answer: The amount consumed, the speed of drinking, and body weight
How much you drink, how fast you drink it, and what you weigh. Sex, physical condition and food in the stomach can push the figure higher still.
Source: Nebraska Motorcycle Manual — Being in Shape to Ride, Blood Alcohol Concentration
2. Who may have an open container of alcohol in a vehicle on a Nebraska public roadway?
Correct answer: No one, driver or passenger
Nobody — the ban on possessing or drinking from an open container reaches passengers as well as the driver, and applies in public parking areas too.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 2A Alcohol, Drugs, and Driving
3. Why is cannabis impairment especially dangerous for a motorcyclist?
Correct answer: It distorts perception of time, space and speed
It skews your sense of time, space and speed — the very judgments a rider must make over and over, often in a split second, to stay clear of trouble.
Source: Nebraska Motorcycle Manual — Being in Shape to Ride, Cannabis and Motorcycle Operation
4. How quickly does alcohol begin to affect a rider after it is swallowed?
Correct answer: Within minutes
It needs no digestion, so it moves into the blood and reaches the brain within minutes of the first drink.
Source: Nebraska Motorcycle Manual — Being in Shape to Ride, Alcohol in the Body
5. Which ability does alcohol impair first in a rider?
Correct answer: Your own read on how well you are riding
Your judgment of your own riding goes first: performance drops while confidence climbs, so you take bigger risks believing you are doing fine.
Source: Nebraska Motorcycle Manual — Being in Shape to Ride, Minimize the Risks
6. What share of fatally injured motorcycle riders were found over the legal alcohol limit?
Correct answer: Nearly a third
Close to a third were above the 0.08% limit, and another 8% showed lower levels still — proof that a drink or two is enough to dull riding skill.
Source: Nebraska Motorcycle Manual — Being in Shape to Ride, Why This Information Is Important
7. How do injury rates compare between motorcycle and automobile crashes that involve substance abuse?
Correct answer: 90% of motorcycle crashes and 33% of car crashes produce injuries
Injuries turn up in 90% of those motorcycle crashes against 33% of the car crashes, which is why impairment costs a rider so much more.
Source: Nebraska Motorcycle Manual — Being in Shape to Ride, Why This Information Is Important
8. You have had seven drinks over three hours. Roughly how much alcohol is still in you at the end?
Correct answer: About four drinks
The body clears about one drink an hour, so three hours removes about three — leaving four drinks' worth, and about four more hours before you should think about riding.
Source: Nebraska Motorcycle Manual — Being in Shape to Ride, Blood Alcohol Concentration
9. What is the administrative penalty in Nebraska for refusing a chemical test?
Correct answer: One year of license revocation
Refusal costs one year of license revocation on the administrative side, and it is a separate crime as well — every driver on Nebraska roads has already consented to testing on request.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 2A Alcohol, Drugs, and Driving
10. How long can the effects of cannabis last when it is eaten rather than smoked?
Correct answer: More than six hours
Eating delays the onset by more than an hour and the effects can run past six hours, while smoking takes hold within minutes and lasts roughly two to four.
Source: Nebraska Motorcycle Manual — Being in Shape to Ride, Cannabis and Motorcycle Operation
11. Which of these does the manual suggest for keeping a friend who has been drinking off a motorcycle?
Correct answer: Bring in a group of friends to apply some pressure
Arrange another ride home, slow the drinking with other activities, keep them there with food and coffee, take the key if you can, and bring other friends in to help.
Source: Nebraska Motorcycle Manual — Being in Shape to Ride, Step in to Protect a Friend
12. What does the manual advise about fatigue on a long ride?
Correct answer: Take a break at least every two hours
Riding tires you faster than driving does. Dress against wind, cold and rain, stop and get off the machine at least every two hours, and remember that experienced riders rarely go beyond about six hours in a day.
Source: Nebraska Motorcycle Manual — Being in Shape to Ride, Fatigue
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