1. You are driving a slow moving vehicle on a winding two-lane highway. You must pull over when it is safe and let other drivers pass when you are followed by

• 3 vehicles
• 4 vehicles
• ✓ 5 or more vehicles

Pull over to let traffic pass if 5 or more vehicles are following you.

2. Drivers are required to obey instruction from:

• Security guards patrolling parking lots
• Other drivers whose vehicles are broken down on the roadway
• ✓ Flaggers (signal persons) at construction sites

California law requires drivers to obey flaggers at construction sites. They have the authority to direct traffic for safety.

3. You are driving 55 mph on a two lane road and want to pass the car ahead of you. To pass safely, you need a ___ gap in the oncoming traffic.

• 5 second
• 7 second
• ✓ 10 to 12 second

At 55 mph, you need at least a 10-12 second gap in oncoming traffic to pass safely on a two-lane road.

4. Which of the following is true about double parking?

• ✓ It is illegal under all circumstances
• It is allowed if you wait in the vehicle
• It is allowed if you are making a delivery

Double parking is illegal under all circumstances. It blocks traffic and creates a safety hazard.

5. You should never park:

• Twenty feet from a railroad track
• ✓ In a space marked with a cross-hatched pattern
• In a bike lane

Never park in crosshatched areas - they are access aisles for disabled parking spaces.

6. Sleeping pills, tranquilizers, pain medicine, or cold or allergy medications

• May impair your driving
• May increase the bad effects of alcohol on your driving
• ✓ Both of the above

These medications can impair driving and worsen alcohol effects.

7. A curb painted blue means:

• Loading or unloading passengers only
• Parking for a limited time
• ✓ Parking for a disabled person with a placard

Blue curbs are reserved for disabled parking with valid placard.

8. You are stopped at an intersection. The traffic light just turned green. Can you go immediately?

• Yes, other traffic or pedestrians must yield to you
• ✓ Yes, but yield to any vehicle or person still in the intersection
• Yes, you now have the right-of-way

Even with a green light, you must yield to vehicles and pedestrians still in the intersection before proceeding.

9. When you don't see any other vehicles around, you:

• Only need to signal for a left or right turn
• ✓ Should still always use your turn signals
• Only need to signal when changing lanes

Always use your turn signals regardless of whether you see other vehicles. There may be pedestrians, bicyclists, or vehicles you haven't noticed.

10. This lane is used to:

• Pass other vehicles when traffic permits
• Make right turns when traffic permits
• ✓ Begin or end left turns when traffic permits

Center left-turn lanes are for beginning or ending left turns only, not for passing.

11. Which of these statements is true about large trucks?

• ✓ Trucks are not as maneuverable as passenger vehicles
• They do not need more space to stop and start
• They are more maneuverable than passenger vehicles

Large trucks need more space and are less maneuverable than cars.

12. Who has the right-of-way at an intersection where there are no crosswalks?

• The vehicle, but it should slow down
• ✓ The pedestrian, always
• The pedestrian, but only when a crosswalk is marked

Pedestrians always have the right-of-way, even outside marked crosswalks.

13. A flashing yellow traffic signal at an intersection means:

• Continue at normal speed, but watch for pedestrians crossing
• Stop and yield to all cross traffic before crossing the intersection
• ✓ Slow down and be especially alert

A flashing yellow light means caution. Slow down and proceed carefully through the intersection.

14. You want to turn left from a driveway. The road you want to turn onto has a lane marked as shown in the picture. You:

• May turn into this lane before merging into regular traffic
• ✓ Must use this lane before merging into regular traffic
• May not turn into this lane while making your left turn

Center left-turn lanes must be used when turning left from a driveway. Enter the lane, then merge when safe.