Title: Drugs and Society Text: Ninth Edition, Glen R. Hanson, Peter J. Venturelli, Annette E. Fleckenstein
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1:  A person with this educational level is most likely to drink throughout his/her life.
A: Some high school
B: GED diploma
C: Regular high school diploma
D: College graduate

2:  The highest economic costs for the nation regarding alcohol abuse are _______________.
A: lost productivity
B: health care costs
C: crime
D: none of the above

3:  ______ alcoholics are moderate drinkers but become abusive and violent when intoxicated, ______ alcoholics are most likely to drink in order to deal with problems in life, whereas ______ alcoholism contains the characteristics of being a true disease and progressing from a psychological to physical dependence. ______ alcoholics live in a culture that views drinking alcohol as normal and spend most of the day continuously sipping without control, whereas ______ alcoholics binge uncontrollably, but have infrequent occasions of drinking.
A: Epsilon; Gamma; Delta; Zeta; Alpha
B: Alpha; Delta; Epsilon; Gamma; Zeta
C: Gamma; Epsilon; Zeta; Alpha; Delta
D: Zeta; Alpha; Gamma; Delta; Epsilon

4:  The behavior exhibited and expected while under the direct use of alcohol, determined by the norms and expectations that prevail in a particular culture, is defined as ______.
A: disinhibition
B: drunken comportment
C: pseudointoxication
D: inebriation underflow

5:  Which of the following statements are true? 1) In 2000, 42% of the population reported family disputes caused by alcohol. 2) Nearly half of all college students are binge drinkers. 3) The social institution that bears the most costs of alcohol abuse is the family. 4) Alcohol is officially linked to at least half of all highway fatalities.
A: 1, 2, and 4
B: 2, 3, and 4
C: 2 and 4
D: All statements are true.

6:  During colonial times, the tavern was viewed as:
A: a key institution and the center of social and political life
B: a place, for men only, to wind down after a hard day of work.
C: a place for sinful women to entertain their wildest fantasies.
D: basically a brothel, although it was also viewed as a gambling center.

7:  The ________ has fewer occasions of uncontrolled drinking than the alcoholic; however, the drinking remains uncontrollable when it occurs.
A: severe alcoholic
B: acute alcoholic
C: alcohol abuser
D: profound alcoholic

8:  Which of the following statements are true? 1) Alcohol withdrawal is not considered a severe withdrawal. 2) People most likely to drink have higher incomes. 3) Yearly, alcohol is responsible for over 100,000 deaths. 4) At one point in US history, doctors made an estimated $40 million per year writing prescriptions for whiskey.
A: 1, 2, and 4
B: 2 only
C: 1, 3 and 4
D: 2, 3 and 4
E: None are true

9:  The group of supporters of the temperance movement was comprised of more African American church members than affluent white church members.
A: True
B: False

10:  Disinhibition refers to the depression of cerebral cortex functioning, resulting in a suspension of rational or thoughtful constraints on behavior.
A: True
B: False

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