2010 California Driver's Examination Test 2

1. You must notify DMV within 5 days if you:

Are cited for a traffic violation

Sell or transfer your vehicle

Paint your vehicle a different color

2. Smoking inside a vehicle when a person younger than 18 years of age is present is:

Legal, if it is your child

Illegal at all times

Not restricted by law

3. If your cell phone rings while you are driving and you do not have a hands-free device, you should:

Answer the call because it may be an emergency

Let the call go to voice mail

Check the incoming number before answering the call

4. It is illegal for a person 21 yeasts of age or older to drive with a bloodd alcohol concentration (BAC) that is ____ or higher.

0.08% - Eight hundredths of one percent

0.10% - One tenth of one percent

0.05% - Five hundredths of one percent

5. To see vehicles in your blind spots, you must look:

Over your shoulders

In your side mirrors

In you inside side mirrors

6. You see a car approaching from the rear. When you check your mirror again to change lanes, you no longer see the car. You should:

Look over your shoulder to be sure that car isn't in your blind spot

Turn your signal on and change lanes slowly

Check your outside mirror to see if the car is in your blind spot

7. When parked on any hill, always set you parking brake and:

Leave your vehicle in neutral

Keep your front wheels parallel to the road

Leave your vehicle in gear or the "park" position

8. Whose responsibility is it to know how your medication affect your driving?

Your pharmacist's

Your physician's

Yours

9. You must notify law enforcement and make a written Report of Traffic Accident Occuring in California (SR 1) to DMV if:

Your vehicle breaks down on the side of the freeway

You are involved in a collision and there is a death

You change your insurance company

10. Which of the following is true about safety belts and collisions?

They are unnecessary if your vehicle is equipped with front and side air bags

They keep you from being thrown clear to safety, which lowers your chances of surviving collisions

They increase your chances of survival in most types of collisions

11. You are approaching a sharp curve in the road. You should:

Start braking before you enter the curve

Start braking as soon as you enter the curve

Accelerate into the curve

12. This red and white sign means:

You may not enter the road from your direction

Stop and proceed with caution

The road ahead is closed to traffic in all directions

13. Who has the right of way at an intersection with no crosswalks?

Pedestrians always have the right-of-way

Vehicles, but they should slow down and be careful

Pedestrians, but only with the green "WALK" signal

14. It is very foggy. You should slow down, turn on your windshield wipers, and your:

High beam lights

Low beam lights

Emergency flashers

15. All children under age six riding in your vehicle must use a child passenger restraint system unless:

They refuse to use the child passenger restraint system

A child passenger restraint system is not available

They weight 60 pounds or more and wear a safety belt

16. When driving near road work zones, you should:

Slow down to watch the work as you pass

Decrease your following distance

Pass the work zone carefully and avoid "rubbernecking"

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

Yes, but yield to any vehicle or person still in the intersection

Yes, or you could be given a ticket for causing gridlock

No, because you must first wait 5 seconds before proceeding

18. When approaching a crosswalk where a blind spot to cross, you must stop:

More than five feet from the crosswalk so the pedestrian will not be distracted by the sound of your engine

At the crosswalk and wait for the pedestrian to cross the street

At the crosswalk and then tell the pedestrian when to cross the street

19. If you are unable to see the road ahead while driving because of heavy fog and your wipers do not help, you should:

Slow down and continue driving

Turn on your high beams and continue driving

Pull off the road completely until visibility improves

20. Allow extra space in front of your vehicle when following a:

Passenger car

Station wagon

Large tour bus

21. You are driving at night on a dimly lit street and using high beams. You should dim your lights when you are within 500 feet of:

A vehicle approaching you from behind

An oncoming vehicle

A sharp curve or hill

22. You are driving 55mph on a two-lane highway, one lane in each direction, and want to pass the car ahead of you. To pass safely, you need to:

Wait until solid, double yellow lines separate the lanes

Increase your speed to at least 60mph

Have a large enough gap in the oncoming traffic

23. When sharing the road with a light rail vehicle, you:

Never turn in front of an approaching light rail vehicle

Always pass a light rail vehicle slowly on the right

Remember they are loud and move slowly like freight trains

24. If a driver looks like he or she is going to pull out in front of you, the safest thing to do is:

Honk your horn and maintain your speed

Slow or stop your car and use your horn

Use your horn and swerve into the next lane

25. It is a good habit to signal continuously during the last 100 feet before you turn at an intersection:

Unless you are in a designated turn lane

Unless your turn is protected by a green arrow

Even if you do not see any other vehicles around

26. Even if you know your vehicle can maneuver a sharp curve at the legal speed limit, you should still slow down because:

You must legally drive below the speed limit on sharp curves

The strong inward pull on your vehicle can be dangerous

There may be a stalled car or collision ahead that you can't see

27. Which of these is a legal U-turn?

On a divided highway where there is a paved opening for a turn

150 feet away from a hill or curve

Over two sets of double,yellow liens in the roadway

28. You are crossing an intersection and an emergency vehicle is approaching with a siren and flashing lights. You should:

Stop immediately in the intersection until it passes

Pull to the right in the intersection and stop

Continue through the intersection, pull to the right, and stop

29. This yellow sign means:

One-way road widens into two lanes ahead

Vehicles on this road travel in two directions

There is a divided highway ahead

30. You park your car at the curb on a level two-way street. Before getting out of your car, you should:

Look for cars or bicycles on the traffic side of your vehicle

Turn your front wheels towards the curb

Make sure you are parked at least two feet from the curb

31. If you approach a curve or the top of a hill and you do not have a clear view of the road ahead, you should:

Pull over and wait for conditions to improve

Use your high beam lights to be more visible

Slow down so you can stop if necessary

32. If five or more vehicles are following you on a narrow two-lane road:

Move to the right side of your lane and drive slowly

Drive into the turnout areas or lanes to let them pass

Continue driving because you have the right-of-way

33. This lane in the middle of a two-way street is used to:

Pass other vehicles when there is no oncoming traffic

Make right turns when there is no oncoming traffic

Begin or end left turns, or start a permitted U-turn

34. If you approach an intersection without a stop sign or signals, you:

Should always stop before driving through the intersection

Must yield the right-of-way to all other vehicles

Should slow down and be ready to stop, if necessary

35. This yellow sign means:

Pedestrian sidewalk ahead

Pedestrian must yield the right-of-way ahead

There is a pedestrian crossing ahead

36. If you are towing another vehicle or trailer on a freeway with four lanes in your direction you may travel in:

Any of the traffic lanes in your direction

Either of the two right lanes

The far right lane only