Alcohol and the driver — Mississippi Permit Test
Alcohol and the driver on the Mississippi permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
Alcohol can affect your personality, temperament and judgment.
A driver whose judgment is off takes risks they would never take sober.
Alcohol can affect your personality, temperament, and judgment.
Tests show that even two beers can markedly decrease a person's reflexes and reaction time.
A driver who thinks a couple of beers is harmless may still be too slow to stop in time.
Tests show that even two beers can markedly decrease a person’s reflexes and reaction time.
If your reactions slow by only a half-second at 55 mph, your vehicle travels an extra 44 feet before stopping.
Those extra feet are often the gap between stopping short of a child and hitting one.
your vehicle will travel an extra forty-four feet before stopping.
If you drink alcohol, do not drive a vehicle.
Even a small amount of drink dulls the skills you need to steer and brake safely.
If you drink alcohol, do not drive a vehicle.
Never let another person who has had alcohol get behind the wheel.
Handing your keys to a friend who has been drinking puts you and everyone near the road at risk.
Never let another person who has consumed alcohol get behind the wheel of a vehicle.
On the test
Which of these can alcohol affect, according to the manual?
Personality, temperament and judgment. A driver whose judgment is off takes risks they would never take sober. Mississippi Driver's License Manual, p.77: “Alcohol can affect your personality, temperament, and judgment.”
How this works
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Mississippi Driver's License Manual, published by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MS.pdf (Mississippi Driver's License Manual, Revised December 2024, Mississippi Department of Public Safety, Driver Service Bureau, retrieved 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MS.pages.txt (the plain pdftotext fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/MS-exam.html (31 Miss. Code. R. 1-2.3 as reproduced by the Legal Information Institute, retrieved 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json under examSource)
- https://www.driverservicebureau.dps.ms.gov/Drivers/Learners_Permit (read 2026-10-04; links the manual, states no count or mark)
- https://www.sos.ms.gov/adminsearch/ACCode/00000383c.pdf (Title 31 Part 1, Driver Services Administrative Code; Rule 2.3 item 9: "A grade of 80% will be required on any and all tests issued for a Temporary Permit.")
- https://www.sos.ms.gov/adminsearch/ACProposed/00013644b.pdf (the 2006 filing whose "30 question" sentence the 2013 and 2014 re-filings struck; not used)