Downloadable Test Bank – Drugs in Society by Lyman 8e
$37.00
- 517 practice questions for all 14 chapters
- 307 multiple choice and 210 true/false
- Correct answer marked on every question
- Test bank in 14 Word files, one per chapter
- Quiz yourself one chapter at a time
- Sent by email, usually within a few minutes
Description
Description
517 practice questions on Drugs in Society, from the drug trade to drug policy, with every correct answer marked
This test bank covers all 14 chapters of Michael D. Lyman’s Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, Eighth Edition. Each chapter has 22 multiple choice questions and 15 true/false statements (Chapter 12 has 21 multiple choice), and the correct answer is marked on every one. The questions stay close to the book’s own material: how drugs move from source countries to street markets, how police corruption takes shape, what federal agencies and the Coast Guard seize, and how legalization played out in Alaska and the Netherlands.
Is this the Lyman book on your syllabus?
Two other textbooks have nearly the same name: Drugs & Society by Hanson and colleagues, and Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society by Levinthal. Lyman’s book is written for criminal justice and criminology courses, with a whole part (Chapters 7 to 9) on organized crime, gangs and trafficking groups. If your contents match the chapters below, this is your test bank.
The 14 chapters, grouped the way the book groups them
Every chapter has 37 questions, except Chapter 12, which has 36.
Part I, Understanding the Problem
Why people use drugs, drug history from coca chewing to crack, pharmacology and dependence, how illicit markets work, domestic cultivation and prescription drugs, and drugs and crime, including police corruption.
- 1The Nature of the Drug Problem
- 2The History of Drug Abuse
- 3Drug Abuse and Pharmacology
- 4The Illicit Drug Trade
- 5Domestic Drug Production
- 6Drugs and Crime
Multiple choice on names and cases, true/false on the details
| Question type | Questions | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| Multiple choice | 307 | Correct answer marked |
| True/false | 210 | Correct answer marked |
| Total | 517 | Correct answer marked |
Most multiple choice questions give four options. Many name a person, court case or group straight from the book, such as Webb v. United States, the Mollen Commission or the Tango prison gang, so they show quickly whether you have the names and cases straight. The true/false statements often hinge on one detail, a wrong figure, the wrong group or an overstated claim, which trains you to read each statement closely.
Because the test bank comes as one Word file per chapter, you can open the practice questions for this week’s reading, answer them without the book, then check the marked answers and go back to the pages behind any you missed.
Try 15 sample questions from all 14 chapters
Eleven are multiple choice and four are true/false, the same two formats as the 517 questions in the download. Choose your answer, then select Show answer to check it.
True or false · Question 1
For the majority of people living in the United States, taking some type of drug is a routine feature of daily life.
- A. True
- B. False
Correct answer
A. True
Multiple choice · Question 2
The text links the sixteenth century Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire partly to which practice?
- A. Inca men smoking opium every day
- B. Inca priests consuming hashish during rituals
- C. Spanish settlers supplying alcohol to Inca farmers
- D. Inca soldiers relying on chewed coca leaves
Correct answer
D. Inca soldiers relying on chewed coca leaves
Multiple choice · Question 3
In 1919, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Webb v. United States resolved which national controversy?
- A. the dispute over opium imported from China
- B. the debate about legalizing marijuana
- C. the dispute over doctors treating opium addicts with drugs
- D. the debate about regulated drugs added to food and beverages
Correct answer
C. the dispute over doctors treating opium addicts with drugs
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Multiple choice · Question 4
A diet medication combining fenfluramine and phentermine, sold as fen-phen, was withdrawn from U.S. pharmacies. Which harm was reported most often by people who took it?
- A. tumors of the brain
- B. damage to heart valves
- C. difficulty breathing
- D. cancer of the lungs
Correct answer
B. damage to heart valves
True or false · Question 5
When police pressure increases, dealers who once sold openly often switch to selling only to customers they already know or to people a trusted contact can vouch for.
- A. True
- B. False
Correct answer
A. True
Multiple choice · Question 6
Someone cultivating cannabis illegally outdoors would be least likely to choose which approach?
- A. hiding the plants within rows of corn
- B. sowing seeds along the edge of a stream
- C. raising one big plot close to the farmhouse
- D. spreading small patches over several sites
Correct answer
C. raising one big plot close to the farmhouse
Multiple choice · Question 7
An officer who uses the authority of the badge to carry out serious crimes, the same kinds of offenses the job exists to prevent, is engaged in:
- A. selective enforcement
- B. internal corruption
- C. active criminality
- D. the Hurley effect
Correct answer
C. active criminality
True or false · Question 8
Neighborhood youth gangs seldom attempt to manage how crack cocaine moves in and out of their area.
- A. True
- B. False
Correct answer
B. False
Multiple choice · Question 9
Police detain a suspected Mafia member, and he declines to tell investigators anything about his crime family. Which Mafia code is he following?
- A. exile
- B. vendetta
- C. omerta
- D. brigata
Correct answer
C. omerta
Multiple choice · Question 10
The criminal groups known as the yakuza are mainly based in which nation?
- A. China
- B. Japan
- C. Vietnam
- D. United States
Correct answer
B. Japan
Multiple choice · Question 11
When officers come across drugs and confiscate them while carrying out their regular, unrelated duties, the confiscation is called a(n):
- A. incidental seizure
- B. interstate seizure
- C. interdiction seizure
- D. interrelated seizure
Correct answer
A. incidental seizure
Multiple choice · Question 12
The text describes the toll on which group as one of the most damaging consequences of the U.S. war on drugs?
- A. women
- B. Asian men
- C. elderly offenders and their partners
- D. manual laborers
Correct answer
A. women
Multiple choice · Question 13
Under Dutch drug policy as described in the text, which substance is NOT classified as a hard drug in the Netherlands?
- A. hashish
- B. cocaine
- C. heroin
- D. opium
Correct answer
A. hashish
True or false · Question 14
Credit for establishing the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and for its achievements belongs to President Bill Clinton.
- A. True
- B. False
Correct answer
B. False
Multiple choice · Question 15
Methadone, a synthetic narcotic painkiller that can stand in for morphine, was first introduced during which conflict?
- A. World War II
- B. World War I
- C. the Korean War
- D. the Civil War
Correct answer
A. World War II
All 517 questions for the Eighth Edition, sent as 14 Word files.
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Questions about the Lyman test bank
Is this the same as the Drugs & Society test bank by Hanson?
No. Hanson’s Drugs & Society is a different textbook with its own chapters. This test bank follows Lyman’s Drugs in Society, Eighth Edition. Exam Banks lists the Hanson test bank separately.
Does it cover Chapter 12 on legalizing marijuana?
Yes. Chapter 12 has 36 questions, 21 multiple choice and 15 true/false, on topics such as medical marijuana laws, legalization in Alaska and the Netherlands, and the gateway debate.
Do the questions include written explanations?
No. Each question has its correct answer marked, without a written explanation.
I have an older edition. Will this match?
It follows the Eighth Edition, which has 14 chapters including the chapter on legalizing marijuana. Compare your book’s contents with the chapter list above before you order.
Can I print the questions or study offline?
Yes. The test bank comes as Word files, so you can open them without an internet connection, print them or copy questions into your own notes.
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