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1. An enforcement officer directs your lane through an intersection while your traffic signal is red. Which instruction should you follow?
- Wait for green before following any direction to move.
- Proceed only if the officer first covers the traffic signal.
- Follow the officer’s direction while watching for hazards.
- Treat the conflicting instructions as a four-way stop.
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2. While you are driving on a public highway, an enforcement officer wearing identifying insignia signals you to stop. How should you respond?
- Stop promptly and carefully.
- Continue until a traffic signal requires you to stop.
- Slow down but keep moving until the officer repeats the signal.
- Stop only if the officer has also placed a temporary road sign.
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3. Your light changes to circular green while another vehicle is still lawfully crossing your intended path in the intersection. What should you do?
- Enter so that the crossing driver must clear your lane immediately.
- Use your horn and pass in front of the crossing vehicle.
- Assume your green signal cancels the other vehicle’s right to finish.
- Yield to the vehicle already lawfully in the intersection.
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4. The only signal permitting your lane to move is a green left arrow. You want to go straight. What does that arrow authorize?
- Any direction after you first stop.
- The indicated left turn, not an otherwise unpermitted straight movement.
- A straight movement if opposing traffic has stopped.
- Any movement chosen by the first driver in the lane.
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5. The circular green signal ahead changes to steady yellow. What is the yellow indication warning you about?
- The intersection has changed to four-way-stop operation.
- The related green movement is ending and a red signal follows.
- All approaches now have permission to clear the intersection together.
- The light will remain yellow until every approaching vehicle enters.
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6. You face a circular red light. A clearly marked stop line lies before the near-side crosswalk. Where must you stop?
- At the far edge of the crosswalk.
- Beside the signal pole even if it is past the line.
- With the front of the car extending into the crosswalk.
- At the marked stop line, before entering the crosswalk.
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7. A steady red right arrow faces your lane, and there is no regulatory sign permitting a right turn on that arrow. May you turn after stopping if the way appears clear?
- No. A right turn on that red arrow requires a regulatory sign permitting it.
- Yes. Every red arrow has the same after-stop permission as circular red.
- Yes, but only after waiting through one complete signal cycle.
- Yes, if you turn into the nearest lane of a one-way street.
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8. A right turn is otherwise lawful, you face circular red, and no sign prohibits turning on red. What must you do before completing the turn?
- Slow enough to check traffic, without necessarily stopping.
- Stop only if someone is already using the crosswalk.
- Make the required stop, then yield to lawful crosswalk and intersection users before turning cautiously.
- Wait for a vehicle ahead to turn and then follow it without another check.
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9. You face circular red on a one-way street and intend to turn left into another one-way street. The turn is otherwise lawful and no sign prohibits a turn on red. What does the displayed Vermont rule allow?
- The turn without a stop if the destination street looks empty.
- A left turn on red from any road, including a two-way road.
- The turn only after another driver makes the same movement first.
- The left turn after the required stop and yielding to lawful intersection and crosswalk users.
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10. An official signal between intersections requires you to stop. There is no sign or pavement marking showing a separate stopping point. Where does the signal rule direct you to stop?
- At the next intersecting street.
- At a fixed distance of 50 feet before the signal.
- At the signal.
- Where the last vehicle ahead happened to stop.
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11. At an ordinary road intersection—not a railroad crossing or school-bus encounter—the signal flashes red. What should you do?
- Slow down and enter whenever no vehicle is immediately beside you.
- Stop, then proceed subject to the rules that apply after a stop sign.
- Wait for the flashing signal to display steady green.
- Enter ahead of drivers approaching from your right.
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12. A yellow signal flashes at an ordinary road intersection. Which response fits that indication?
- Proceed only with caution, watching for conflicting movements.
- Stop and then claim priority over other approaching traffic.
- Maintain speed because all conflicting approaches must be stopped.
- Wait for green before making any movement through the intersection.
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13. A lane-direction signal over a lane displays red. The pavement ahead in that lane appears empty. May you enter it to continue driving?
- Yes, after stopping before changing lanes.
- Yes, until an opposing vehicle becomes visible.
- No. Do not enter or travel in the lane controlled by red.
- Yes, if you plan to leave it before the next intersection.
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14. A driver extends the left hand and arm horizontally from the car. What intention does that signal communicate?
- A right turn.
- A left turn.
- A stop or decrease in speed.
- Permission for a following driver to pass.
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15. A driver extends the hand and arm upward from the car’s left side. What should you expect?
- A left turn.
- A stop or reduction in speed.
- Permission to pass on the left.
- A right turn.
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16. A driver ahead extends the left hand and arm downward. What does that signal mean?
- The driver intends to turn left.
- The driver intends to turn right.
- The driver wants you to pass immediately.
- The driver intends to stop or decrease speed.
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17. In an ordinary passenger-car right turn, with no special lane directions or obstruction, where should you approach and make the turn?
- Near the centerline, then across the right lane.
- As close as practicable to the right-hand curb or roadway edge.
- From whichever lane produces the widest arc.
- Across two lanes so no vehicle can come alongside.
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18. At an ordinary intersection, both roads carry two-way traffic. Where should you position your car as you approach to turn left?
- In the opposing lane before entering the intersection.
- Near the right curb until the turn begins.
- Whichever side has fewer waiting vehicles.
- In the part of your roadway’s right half nearest its centerline.
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19. You make a normal left turn from a one-way street into another one-way street with several lanes and no special turn markings. Where should you finish the turn, as nearly as practicable?
- In the left-hand lane lawfully available for traffic going your direction.
- In the far-right lane, regardless of the turn’s approach lane.
- In any lane chosen after entering the intersection.
- Across two destination lanes until you have accelerated.
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20. Near a hillcrest, your car cannot be seen from one approaching direction for 500 feet. May you turn around there to drive in the opposite direction?
- Yes, if the maneuver takes only one forward movement.
- No. The hillcrest visibility condition prohibits that turnaround.
- Yes, provided the turn signal has operated for 100 feet.
- Yes, unless a No U-turn sign is posted.
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Vermont · 20-question sample · Mark one correct answer for each question.
1. C — Follow the officer’s direction while watching for hazards.
The device-obedience rule expressly allows an enforcement officer to direct otherwise. Follow that direction attentively rather than substituting your own stop procedure.
2. A — Stop promptly and carefully.
The statute requires an operator to stop promptly and carefully when signaled by an enforcement officer wearing identifying insignia. A traffic light or repeated signal is not a prerequisite.
3. D — Yield to the vehicle already lawfully in the intersection.
Circular green permits movement, but drivers must yield to vehicles lawfully within the intersection when the signal appears. Green does not authorize a conflicting entry.
4. B — The indicated left turn, not an otherwise unpermitted straight movement.
A green arrow permits cautious entry for the indicated movement or another movement allowed by a simultaneous signal. The left arrow alone does not permit going straight.
5. B — The related green movement is ending and a red signal follows.
Steady yellow warns that the related green signal is ending or that red will be shown immediately afterward. It does not create a new priority or authorize speeding up to enter.
6. D — At the marked stop line, before entering the crosswalk.
For circular red, the statute specifies the clearly marked stop line. Its crosswalk alternative applies when there is no marked line; it does not permit rolling past an existing one.
7. A — No. A right turn on that red arrow requires a regulatory sign permitting it.
Vermont’s displayed statute expressly prohibits a right turn facing a red arrow unless a regulatory sign permits the movement. Do not apply the ordinary circular-red exception to this unsigned red arrow.
8. C — Make the required stop, then yield to lawful crosswalk and intersection users before turning cautiously.
The circular-red exception allows a cautious right turn after the required stop unless a sign prohibits it. The driver still yields to pedestrians lawfully in the adjacent crosswalk and traffic lawfully using the intersection.
9. D — The left turn after the required stop and yielding to lawful intersection and crosswalk users.
The after-stop exception includes a left turn from a one-way street into a one-way street when no sign prohibits it. It does not create the same permission from a two-way approach.
10. C — At the signal.
Signals can apply away from intersections. When there is no sign or pavement marking indicating the stopping point, the statute directs the stop at the signal.
11. B — Stop, then proceed subject to the rules that apply after a stop sign.
An ordinary flashing-red road signal requires a stop and then the rules for proceeding after a stop sign. Railroad and school-bus conduct is expressly governed separately.
12. A — Proceed only with caution, watching for conflicting movements.
A flashing-yellow road signal permits proceeding through the intersection or past the signal only with caution. It is not a promise that the path is clear.
13. C — No. Do not enter or travel in the lane controlled by red.
The overhead lane-control rule prohibits entering or traveling in a lane with a red indication. An empty-looking lane does not cancel that control.
14. B — A left turn.
The horizontal hand-and-arm signal from the left side indicates a left turn. This question concerns its meaning, not whether a particular vehicle may omit required signal equipment.
15. D — A right turn.
The upward hand-and-arm signal from the left side indicates a right turn. It is not a passing invitation or a slowdown signal.
16. D — The driver intends to stop or decrease speed.
The downward hand-and-arm signal indicates a stop or decrease in speed. Be ready for the vehicle ahead to slow rather than interpreting it as permission to pass.
17. B — As close as practicable to the right-hand curb or roadway edge.
The ordinary rule places both the approach and right turn as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or roadway edge. This scenario does not involve a specially directed layout.
18. D — In the part of your roadway’s right half nearest its centerline.
For this two-way layout, the left-turn approach is in the part of the right half nearest the centerline. The statute does not authorize moving into the opposing half before the turn.
19. A — In the left-hand lane lawfully available for traffic going your direction.
For a layout involving one-way traffic, the rule directs the left turn into the left-hand lane lawfully available in the direction of travel, as nearly as practicable. It is not permission to sweep across the destination lanes.
20. B — No. The hillcrest visibility condition prohibits that turnaround.
A turn to proceed in the opposite direction is prohibited on a curve or near a grade crest when the car cannot be seen by an approaching driver from either direction for 500 feet. A missing sign does not remove that condition.
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