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A bright fluorescent yellow-green background on a warning sign is reserved for which group of warnings?

Pedestrian, bicycle and school warnings

Railroad crossings and drawbridges

Construction and maintenance work zones

You stop at a STOP sign that has no ALL WAY plaque beneath it. What can you conclude about the cross street?

You cannot assume the cross traffic stops at all, so you must give way to it before you go

Traffic on the cross street must also be stopping, because intersections are always signed the same way in both directions

Traffic on the cross street has to yield to you once you have come to a stop

The intersection is uncontrolled, so whoever is on the right goes first

Blue signs point you toward:

Motorist services such as hospitals, fuel, food and lodging

A New York road has a solid line on your side and a broken line on the other. You may:

Not pass; the drivers on the broken-line side may

Pass only to overtake a slow vehicle

This pennant-shaped sign appears on the LEFT side of the road. Why is it placed there rather than on the right?

It marks the start of a no-passing zone, and the left side is where a passing driver would be looking

Left-side signs always apply only to trucks

It warns oncoming traffic, not you

Signs are placed on the left whenever the road curves right

Traffic ahead is backed up past a railroad crossing. What does this sign require of you?

Wait before the tracks until there is room for your whole vehicle on the far side

Cross the tracks and stop as close to the car ahead as possible

Cross quickly and stop on the tracks only briefly

Stop on the tracks only if a train is not visible

The speed limit is 55 mph but heavy fog has reduced visibility to a few car lengths. Driving at 55 would be:

Illegal, because the basic speed law requires a speed safe for the conditions

Legal, because you are within the posted limit

Illegal only if a collision occurs

You are leaving a parking lot and entering a street in Illinois. There is no stop sign. You must:

Stop before entering the street

Yield only if traffic is approaching

Proceed without stopping if the way is clear

Sound your horn and proceed slowly

A diagonal downward arrow plaque under a crossing sign means:

The crossing is at this location, not somewhere ahead

Traffic must move to the left here

The road curves down and to the left

Pedestrians should cross to the left

A school bus ahead of you has stopped with its red lights flashing and its stop arm out. What must you do?

Stop and remain stopped until the lights stop flashing and the arm is withdrawn

Slow to 15 mph and pass carefully

Pass on the left if no children are visible

Stop only if you are directly behind the bus

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1.
A bright fluorescent yellow-green background on a warning sign is reserved for which group of warnings?
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Pedestrian, bicycle and school warnings
Fluorescent yellow-green is used only for warnings about people outside a vehicle: pedestrians, bicyclists and schoolchildren. The unusual colour makes those signs stand out from the ordinary yellow warnings around them.
Filing the bright green-yellow under construction colours. Orange means a temporary work zone; yellow-green means someone unprotected may be in your path.
2.
You stop at a STOP sign that has no ALL WAY plaque beneath it. What can you conclude about the cross street?
Not quiteCorrect answer: C — You cannot assume the cross traffic stops at all, so you must give way to it before you go
The ALL WAY plaque is added only where every approach is stopped. Without it, the cross street may run freely at full speed, so stopping does not buy you a turn to go — it obliges you to wait for a gap you can safely use.
Treating every stop sign as a four-way stop and pulling out as soon as another driver stops. Only the plaque tells you the other approaches stop.
3.
Blue signs point you toward:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Motorist services such as hospitals, fuel, food and lodging
Blue is the general-service colour. The H marks a hospital; the same blue background carries fuel, food, lodging and telephone symbols.
Blue and green both look like "information", but blue is about services beside the road and green is about where the road goes.
4.
A New York road has a solid line on your side and a broken line on the other. You may:
Not quiteCorrect answer: D — Not pass; the drivers on the broken-line side may
Each direction reads the line closest to it. Solid on your side means no passing for you.
The presence of any broken line is taken as permission for everyone.
5.
This pennant-shaped sign appears on the LEFT side of the road. Why is it placed there rather than on the right?
Not quiteCorrect answer: B — It marks the start of a no-passing zone, and the left side is where a passing driver would be looking
The pennant is the only warning sign mounted on the left. It marks the beginning of a no-passing zone and is placed where a driver who is about to pull out to pass will actually be looking.
Its position does not mean it applies to someone else — it applies to you, and it is a legal restriction, not just advice.
6.
Traffic ahead is backed up past a railroad crossing. What does this sign require of you?
Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Wait before the tracks until there is room for your whole vehicle on the far side
You must not enter a crossing unless you can clear it completely. A train cannot stop or swerve, and a car trapped on the tracks has no escape.
The instinct in stopped traffic is to close the gap. That instinct is what puts vehicles on the tracks when the queue does not move.
7.
The speed limit is 55 mph but heavy fog has reduced visibility to a few car lengths. Driving at 55 would be:
Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Illegal, because the basic speed law requires a speed safe for the conditions
The posted limit is a maximum for ideal conditions. The basic speed law makes any speed unsafe for the actual conditions an offence on its own.
"I was under the limit" is the most common and least effective defence after a bad-weather crash.
8.
You are leaving a parking lot and entering a street in Illinois. There is no stop sign. You must:
Not quiteCorrect answer: C — Stop before entering the street
Illinois law requires a stop before entering any street from a driveway, parking lot or alley, whether or not a stop sign is present.
Drivers look for a sign to tell them to stop. Here the obligation comes from the manoeuvre, not from a sign.
9.
A diagonal downward arrow plaque under a crossing sign means:
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — The crossing is at this location, not somewhere ahead
The arrow points at the crossing itself. Without it, a crossing sign is an advance warning; with it, the crossing is right where you are.
Read as a direction to steer, the plaque makes no sense. It is pointing at the ground, not telling you where to go.
10.
A school bus ahead of you has stopped with its red lights flashing and its stop arm out. What must you do?
Not quiteCorrect answer: A — Stop and remain stopped until the lights stop flashing and the arm is withdrawn
Flashing red lights on a school bus require every driver in both directions to stop, and to stay stopped until the lights stop and the stop arm folds in. The only exception is a divided highway, where opposing traffic need not stop.
'No children visible' is not an exception — a child can step out from in front of the bus where you cannot see them.

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Is this DMV practice test really free?: Yes. Every question on the site is free, with no account and no email. The app adds offline access, a learning path and progress tracking.
How many questions are on the DMV written test?: It depends on the state — from 20 to 50. Pick your state below to see its real numbers.
Where do these questions come from?: Each one is written from the state's official driver handbook and the federal MUTCD sign standard, with the source listed on the page. They are not copies of real exam questions — nobody who has those is allowed to publish them.
Can I take the DMV test in Spanish?: Most states offer the knowledge test in Spanish, and some in a dozen more languages. You can practise in Spanish here too.

Where this comes from

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), 11th Edition — U.S. Federal Highway Administration
MUTCD sign artwork on Wikimedia Commons — Wikimedia Commons — files created by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration
California Driver Handbook — California DMV
Texas Driver Handbook — Texas Department of Public Safety
Florida Driver License Handbook — Florida HSMV
New York State Driver's Manual — New York State DMV
Illinois Rules of the Road — Illinois Secretary of State
Pennsylvania Driver's Manual — PennDOT

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