Topic 6 · Alcohol, Drugs, and Driving (DUI Laws)
If you are arrested for DUI and refuse the chemical test, can you still be convicted of DUI?
- No, refusal prevents conviction
- Only if you admit drinking
- Yes, based on other evidence — correct answer
Why
Yes. Officers' observations and field sobriety results support a conviction on their own, and the refusal itself costs you a year's suspension.
Practise this in the real format
Reading one answer is not the same as sitting the test. The simulator runs the first-time adult form: 36 questions, 6 mistakes allowed, 83% to pass.
Source: California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, rev. 6/2025), the document the DMV writes the real test from. Edited by Fernando Aguilera. Aprobify is not affiliated with the California DMV.
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