How To Use Your Mirrors Quiz

1. You're driving along, you see a parked vehicle on the left hand side of the road in the not too distant future, what should you do?

Check your right door mirror and move to the right

Signal to the right and move out and around the parked object

2. What should you be able to see in the interior mirror when setting it up for your driving position?

People in the back

The parcel shelf

The whole of the rear window

The rear window and some of the roof of the car

3. After you've passed an object on the street, such as a parked car, what should you do to come back into your normal driving position?

Start to drift back to the left

Check your left mirror and move into the left

Check your interior mirror, left door mirror and then drift back to the left

Signal to the left and move back towards the kerb

4. Which of the following is not a reason to use your mirrors?

Changing lanes

Changing position

Changing speed

Opening the car door

Starting the engine

5. Why should all decisions be confirmed with the interior mirror?

Because it's bigger

Because it's flat glass and gives a true reflection and image of what is happening behind you

You can just see more in it

It's easier to use

6. When wanting to move away from the side of the road (you're next to the left hand side pavement), which mirrors are used?

Left

Interior and left

Right

Interior and right

Just the interior

7. When overtaking, how do you know it's safe to come back to your normal drive position?

When you can see the passed object in your interior mirror

When you can see the passed object in your left door mirror

Once you've looked over your left shoulder and seen it through the back window

5 seconds after it's gone from view in the front windshield

8. What does MSM stand for?

Mirror signal manoeuvre

Manoeuvre speed mirrors

Mirrors signal manoeuvre

Mirrors speed move

9. When setting up your door mirrors, what should you be able to see?

1/3 of the mirror is full of the car door and the horizon 1/2 way across

Half the car door is in view and the more sky than road

None of the car door and the horizon 1/3 of the way up, seeing more road than sky