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Wisconsin Bartending Practice Test

Wisconsin alcohol beverage law for servers and bartenders, with the chapter 125 section under every answer.

What is the most a municipality may charge for a provisional operator's license?

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The operator's license and the course 21

  • A person completed the training course 18 months ago and now applies for a first operator's license. Must the course be repeated? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(6)(a)3.
  • A temporary operator's license under s. 125.17(4) may be issued only to operators who work for, or donate their services to, what kind of body? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(4)(a)
  • An alcohol license issued to a natural person normally needs 90 days of state residency. Does that apply to an applicant for an operator's license? Wis. Stat. § 125.04(5)(d)1.
  • An applicant is enrolled in the training course but has not finished it. What does s. 125.17(6)(b) have the municipality issue? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(6)(b)
  • By the Department of Revenue's requirements for approved courses, what must a student score on the course's comprehensive exam to earn the certificate of completion? Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Responsible Beverage Server Training Course common questions (2023)
  • For how long is a manager's license under s. 125.18 valid? Wis. Stat. § 125.18(3)
  • For how long is an operator's license valid under s. 125.17(3)? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(3)
  • For how long may a temporary operator's license be valid? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(4)(c)
  • How many temporary operator's licenses may one person hold per year? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(4)(b)
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The operator's license and the course, continued

  • How old must an applicant be for an operator's license or an operator's permit? Wis. Stat. § 125.04(5)(d)2.
  • In a 1st class city, on what date does an operator's license expire? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(3)
  • May a municipality make operator's license applicants take training beyond the state course? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(6)(c)
  • Outside 1st class cities, on what date does an operator's license expire? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(3)
  • What happens to that provisional license if the applicant fails to complete the course? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(6)(b)
  • What is the most a municipality may charge for a provisional operator's license? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(5)(c)
  • What must a first-time applicant complete before a municipality may issue an operator's license? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(6)(a)
  • When does a provisional operator's license expire under s. 125.17(5)(d)1.? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(5)(d)1.
  • Where is a municipal operator's license valid? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(2)
  • Which credential is valid in every Wisconsin municipality? Wis. Stat. § 125.175(2)
  • Who is excused from the training course under s. 125.17(6)(a)? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(6)(a)1.
  • Who issues an operator's license, the license bartenders usually mean? Wis. Stat. § 125.17(1)

Who may serve and who must be present 11

  • A 17-year-old is under the immediate supervision of a licensed operator. May the 17-year-old serve intoxicating liquor to customers? Wis. Stat. § 125.68(2)
  • A 19-year-old has no operator's license. May he or she serve beer in a Class "B" tavern? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(2)
  • A Class "B" tavern sells draught beer. What must be on or near each tap? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(5)
  • A licensee lets a friend use the Class "B" license to sell alcohol beverages. What does s. 125.32(2m) say happens to the license? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(2m)
  • A tavern hands out free beer to get around a rule on sales. What does s. 125.315 say? Wis. Stat. § 125.315(1)
  • A tavern with a Class "B" license is open for business. Who must be on the premises under s. 125.32(2)? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(2)
  • For the rule on who must be on the premises, how is a person holding a manager's license counted? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(2)
  • How must a retail alcohol beverage license be kept under s. 125.04(10)? Wis. Stat. § 125.04(10)
  • The licensee's 18-year-old daughter tends bar. How does s. 125.32(2) treat her? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(2)
  • What is the operator's license holder on duty responsible for under s. 125.32(2)? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(2)
  • Which act does s. 125.68(8) prohibit? Wis. Stat. § 125.68(8)

Underage persons 23

  • A 19-year-old comes in with his 25-year-old brother, who orders him a drink. Is the sale prohibited? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(1)(a)1.
  • A 19-year-old drummer is under contract with the licensee to entertain customers. May the drummer be on the premises? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(3)(a)9.
  • A 20-year-old sits down with her 23-year-old husband and orders a beer. Does s. 125.07(1)(a) prohibit the sale? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(1)(a)
  • A Class "B" tavern plans an evening for teenagers with no alcohol beverages sold, consumed or given away. What must the licensee do under s. 125.07(3)(a)10.? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(3)(a)10.
  • A licensee commits a violation within 12 months after one previous violation. For how long shall the court suspend the license? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(1)(b)3.
  • A licensee permits an unaccompanied underage person to be on the premises against s. 125.07(3)(a). What is the penalty? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(3)(b)
  • A person sells alcohol to someone under 18 whom he should have known was underage, and the young person dies from drinking it. What is the seller guilty of under s. 125.075(2)? Wis. Stat. § 125.075(2)(b)
  • A person sells to an unaccompanied underage person and has no previous violation within 30 months. What penalty does s. 125.07(1)(b)2.a. allow? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(1)(b)2.
  • A place holds a Class "B" license and a restaurant license. For the rule on underage persons, what does s. 125.07(3)(a)6. presume about its principal business? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(3)(a)6.
  • An 18-year-old stocks shelves for a retail licensee. May he or she possess alcohol beverages during working hours? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(4)(bm)
  • An adult lets underage guests drink at a house the adult owns and occupies. What does s. 125.07(1)(a)3. say no adult may do? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(1)(a)3.
  • An unaccompanied 17-year-old enters a liquor store that holds a "Class A" license to buy a bag of ice. What does s. 125.07(3)(a)2. say? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(3)(a)2.
  • An unaccompanied underage person walks into a tavern. Under the general rule of s. 125.07(3)(a), for what purpose may the person be there? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(3)(a)
  • An underage person lies about his age to get a drink from a licensee. What forfeiture does s. 125.07(4)(bs)1. set for a first violation? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(4)(bs)1.
  • An underage person violates s. 125.07(4)(a) on a licensee's premises, and the licensee wins a civil action against the person. What does the court award? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(4)(f)1.
  • An underage person working undercover with the police is sold a drink on licensed premises. Who may be cited under s. 125.07(1)(b)6.c.? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(1)(b)6.
  • Before filing that civil action, at least how many days ahead must the licensee mail notice of the intent to sue? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(4)(f)3.
  • Over what period are a person's previous violations counted under s. 125.07(1)(b)2.? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(1)(b)2.
  • To keep the right to bring that civil action, what must the licensee or an employee do? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(4)(f)5.
  • Under s. 125.07(1)(a), alcohol beverages may be sold to an underage person only when he or she is accompanied by whom? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(1)(a)1.
  • Under s. 125.075(2), what is the seller guilty of if the person under 18 suffers great bodily harm from the alcohol provided? Wis. Stat. § 125.075(2)(a)
  • What is the legal drinking age in s. 125.02(8m)? Wis. Stat. § 125.02(8m)
  • With 3 or more previous violations within 30 months, how far may the penalty for a sale to an underage person reach? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(1)(b)2.

Proof of age 13

  • A card looks altered. Must the licensee accept it? Wis. Stat. § 125.085(2)
  • A customer shows a driver's license from another state. How does s. 125.085 treat it? Wis. Stat. § 125.085(2)
  • A person makes a false official identification card for an underage friend, free of charge. What penalty does s. 125.085(3)(a)1. set? Wis. Stat. § 125.085(3)(a)1.
  • A seller charged with a sale to an underage person raises the defense in s. 125.07(6). How many of its four facts must be proven? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(6)
  • A server suspects a card is false and holds it while checking. What does s. 125.039 provide? Wis. Stat. § 125.039
  • An underage person intentionally carries an official identification card that was not legally issued to him. What forfeiture does s. 125.085(3)(bd) set? Wis. Stat. § 125.085(3)(bd)
  • Besides the date of the purchase and the identification used, what may the book show? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(7)(b)
  • For a military identification card to be an official identification card, what must it contain? Wis. Stat. § 125.085(1)(d)
  • What is making a false official identification card for an underage person when it is done for money? Wis. Stat. § 125.085(3)(a)2.
  • What may a retail licensee keep for the purposes of that defense under s. 125.07(7)? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(7)(a)
  • What must a law enforcement officer do with a false card that is evidence of a violation of s. 125.085(3)(b)? Wis. Stat. § 125.085(3)(c)
  • Which is one of the four facts of the defense in s. 125.07(6)? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(6)(d)
  • Which of these is an "official identification card" under s. 125.085(1)? Wis. Stat. § 125.085(1)

Intoxicated persons and liability 8

  • A person violates a provision of chapter 125 that sets no penalty of its own. What is the general penalty in s. 125.11(1)? Wis. Stat. § 125.11(1)
  • A provider knew a customer was underage, and the drinks were a substantial factor in injuring a third party. What becomes of the immunity under s. 125.035(4)(b)? Wis. Stat. § 125.035(4)(b)
  • A regular is intoxicated. A friend offers to buy him one more, and the bartender would pour it free. Does s. 125.07(2)(a) reach a free drink? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(2)(a)1.
  • Does the civil liability immunity stop a forfeiture action for violating chapter 125? Wis. Stat. § 125.035(5)
  • What does s. 125.09(8) say about alcohol vapor devices? Wis. Stat. § 125.09(8)
  • What is the general rule of s. 125.035(2) on civil liability for a person who sells or gives alcohol beverages to another person? Wis. Stat. § 125.035(2)
  • What penalty does s. 125.07(2)(b) set for serving a person who is intoxicated? Wis. Stat. § 125.07(2)(b)
  • When does the civil liability immunity NOT apply under s. 125.035(3)? Wis. Stat. § 125.035(3)

Closing hours and license classes 19

  • A "Class B" licensee sells a cocktail to go. What does s. 125.51(3)(a) require before the drink leaves the premises? Wis. Stat. § 125.51(3)(a)
  • A couple in a restaurant with a "Class B" license orders dinner and a bottle of wine and does not finish the wine. How many opened bottles may they take with them under s. 125.51(3r)? Wis. Stat. § 125.51(3r)(a)
  • A restaurant whose principal business is food and lodging stays open through the closing hours. What does s. 125.32(3)(c) allow? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(3)(c)
  • A store with a "Class A" license sells packaged liquor. Between which hours may it not remain open for the sale of intoxicating liquor? Wis. Stat. § 125.68(4)(b)
  • A store with a Class "A" license offers free taste samples of beer. How large may each sample be? Wis. Stat. § 125.25(1)
  • A store with a Class "A" license sells packaged beer. Between which hours may it not sell fermented malt beverages? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(3)(b)
  • At 12:30 a.m. a customer in a Class "B" tavern asks for an unopened six-pack of beer to take home. What does s. 125.32(3)(am) say? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(3)(am)
  • Before that opened bottle of wine leaves the restaurant, what must the licensee do to it? Wis. Stat. § 125.51(3r)(a)3.
  • How many of those taste samples may a Class "A" licensee provide to one person in a day? Wis. Stat. § 125.25(1)
  • May a municipality pass an ordinance closing its Class "B" taverns at 1 a.m. instead of 2 a.m.? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(3)(d)
  • May a municipality stop carryout beer sales earlier than 12 midnight? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(3)(d)
  • On a weeknight, between which hours may a Class "B" tavern not remain open? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(3)(a)
  • On Saturday and Sunday mornings, what are the closing hours for a Class "B" tavern? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(3)(a)
  • On the Sunday that daylight saving time begins, what are the closing hours? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(3)(a)
  • On which date are premises operating under a Class "B" license not required to close? Wis. Stat. § 125.32(3)(a)
  • What does "alcohol beverages" mean in s. 125.02(1)? Wis. Stat. § 125.02(1)
  • What does a "Class C" license authorize? Wis. Stat. § 125.51(3m)(b)
  • What does a Class "B" license, with the quotation marks around the B only, authorize? Wis. Stat. § 125.26(1)
  • What must the licensee hand over with that bottle of wine? Wis. Stat. § 125.51(3r)(a)2.

How this list was compiled: Every question rests on one section of chapter 125 of the Wisconsin Statutes (Alcohol Beverages), read on 2026-10-12 in the Legislature's own copy, https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/125 , which that day read 'Updated 2023-24 Wis. Stats. Published and certified under s. 35.18. October 1, 2026' and is named in the question's source line: sections 125.02, 125.035, 125.039, 125.04, 125.07, 125.075, 125.085, 125.09, 125.11, 125.17, 125.175, 125.18, 125.25, 125.26, 125.315, 125.32, 125.51 and 125.68. One question on the course exam's pass mark and the facts about the course on the page are from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue's 'Responsible Beverage Server Training Course' common questions for course providers (dated December 5, 2023), https://www.revenue.wi.gov/Pages/FAQS/rbs-courses.aspx . The department sets no number of questions and no time limit for a course's exam. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site from the statute text; nothing is copied from an approved course, a provider's exam, the department's Publication 302 or another practice test. The explanations restate the public text of the law and quote it in part.

How it works

This unofficial Wisconsin bartending practice test is free to take online and holds 95 questions written from chapter 125 of the Wisconsin Statutes. Approved providers teach the responsible beverage server course and give its exam.

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What the server course covers, and what is here

The Department of Revenue expects an approved course to review chapter 125, the enforcement parts of chapter 139 and its Publication 302, and to teach alcohol's effects, levels of intoxication and tobacco sales. This bank drills chapter 125 only: the operator's license, underage and intoxicated persons, proof of age, closing hours.

The course exam

Each approved course ends in its own comprehensive exam, and the department requires a retake for a student who does not pass the first time. It sets no question count and no time limit, so the 25 questions of a mock exam here are this site's choice.

  • Renewing an operator's license does not require the course again (s. 125.17(6)(a)1.).
  • Taverns close from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m., from 2:30 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and not at all on January 1 (s. 125.32(3)).
  • An underage person may be served when with a parent, guardian or spouse of legal drinking age (s. 125.07(1)(a)).

Questions and answers

How old do you have to be to bartend in Wisconsin?

18. Section 125.04(5)(d)2. issues operator's licenses only to applicants who have attained 18, and ss. 125.32(2) and 125.68(2) let a person of at least 18 serve under the immediate supervision of a licensed operator who is on the premises.

How long is a Wisconsin bartender license good for?

One or two years, as the municipal governing body decides, ending June 30, or December 31 in a 1st class city (s. 125.17(3)). The statute calls it an operator's license, and it is valid only in the municipality that issued it.

What score do you need to pass the Wisconsin responsible beverage server exam?

At least 80 percent on the course's comprehensive exam, by the Department of Revenue's requirements for approved courses. A score here measures this bank of chapter 125 questions, not a provider's exam.

Are these the real Wisconsin bartending test questions?

No. This site has never seen an approved provider's exam. The questions were written from chapter 125 of the Wisconsin Statutes, and the Wisconsin Department of Revenue did not write or review them.

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