Arkansas Car / Permit: Sharing the Road Practice Test

Question 1

According to the guide, a car can disappear from a truck driver's view up to how far behind the trailer?

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Two hundred feet — The guide maps the no-zone as roughly twenty feet ahead of the cab, along both flanks, and as much as two hundred feet to the rear.

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Twenty feet

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Fifty feet

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Four hundred feet

Question 2

A motorcycle ahead has its turn signal flashing. Why wait before you pull out?

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Motorcycle signals do not switch off by themselves and the rider may have forgotten it — The guide warns twice about this: wait to see whether the machine actually begins turning before you commit.

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The rider must signal a hundred feet in advance

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The blinking signal means the rider is yielding to you

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Motorcycle signals flash only while braking

Question 3

What standing do bicycles have on Arkansas streets?

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The same rights and duties as other vehicles, sharing the traffic lanes — The guide grants bicycles equal standing and requires riders to travel on the right-hand side with the flow rather than against it.

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They belong on the sidewalk at all times

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They may ride facing the oncoming traffic

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They lose the right to the roadway wherever a shoulder exists

Question 4

The crash most often seen between a car and a motorcycle happens when

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the car turns left across the motorcycle's path at an intersection — The guide reports that over forty percent of motorcycle crashes occur at intersections and that most of those involve a vehicle turning left in front of the rider.

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the motorcycle runs into the back of the car

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the car changes lanes on a highway

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the motorcycle passes along the shoulder

Question 5

When you overtake a tractor-trailer, the guide says to

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pass down its left side and get all the way by without dawdling — Lingering beside a rig leaves the truck driver no room to swerve if something appears ahead, so the guide asks for a complete pass on the left.

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pass on the right where the mirrors are larger

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match the truck's speed alongside for a while

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pass only while heading downhill

Question 6

How does the stopping distance of a loaded tractor-trailer at 55 mph compare with a car's?

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The rig needs well over three hundred feet, far more than the car's roughly two hundred and twenty-five — The guide puts the loaded rig beyond 335 feet — about the length of a football field — against roughly 225 feet for the average car.

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Both need about the same distance

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The rig stops sooner thanks to its air brakes

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The rig needs roughly half the car's distance

Question 7

A tractor-trailer ahead of you swings wide to the left. The most likely reason is that the driver

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is setting up to turn right — Because a long vehicle's rear wheels cut inside the front ones, the guide says truck drivers often have to swing left first to complete a right turn.

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is moving over into the left lane

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is pulling over to park

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has lost steering control

Question 8

A lane is too narrow for a car and a bicycle to sit side by side. The guide says the safest response is to

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let the rider have the whole lane — The guide lists a lane too narrow to share as one of the situations in which the cyclist should be allowed full use of it.

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squeeze past while sounding the horn

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signal the rider onto the shoulder

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pass slowly inside the same lane

Question 9

What is the simplest test of whether a truck driver can see you?

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Whether you can spot the driver's face in the truck's side mirror — The guide offers this as an excellent rule for motorists: no view of the driver in that mirror means no view of you from the cab.

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Whether the truck's brake lights are visible

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Whether you are within two car lengths

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Whether the truck signals as you approach

Question 10

A lane marked and signed for bicycles only may be used by a motorist

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never — not to turn, not to pass and not to park — The guide is absolute about the marked bicycle lane: it is not a turning lane, not a passing lane and not a parking space.

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for right turns only

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for passing when the next lane is blocked

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for brief parking outside the rush hours

Question 11

You are catching up to a bicycle and a car is coming the other way on a two-lane road. You should

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hold back, let the oncoming car go by, then pass the bicycle — The guide says to take hazards one at a time and never to squeeze between a rider and oncoming traffic.

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pass the bicycle quickly before the car arrives

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steer between the bicycle and the oncoming car

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sound the horn so the rider moves onto the shoulder

Question 12

Riding alongside a motorcycle within one lane is

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not acceptable, because the rider is entitled to the whole lane — The guide says the lane may look wide enough for both, but the rider needs that room to maneuver and the lane belongs to the motorcycle.

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acceptable if you stay to the far side

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acceptable while traffic is slow

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acceptable only while passing

Arkansas Car / Permit: Sharing the Road practice test

Study questions with answers

1. According to the guide, a car can disappear from a truck driver's view up to how far behind the trailer?

2. A motorcycle ahead has its turn signal flashing. Why wait before you pull out?

3. What standing do bicycles have on Arkansas streets?

4. The crash most often seen between a car and a motorcycle happens when

5. When you overtake a tractor-trailer, the guide says to

6. How does the stopping distance of a loaded tractor-trailer at 55 mph compare with a car's?

7. A tractor-trailer ahead of you swings wide to the left. The most likely reason is that the driver

8. A lane is too narrow for a car and a bicycle to sit side by side. The guide says the safest response is to

9. What is the simplest test of whether a truck driver can see you?

10. A lane marked and signed for bicycles only may be used by a motorist

11. You are catching up to a bicycle and a car is coming the other way on a two-lane road. You should

12. Riding alongside a motorcycle within one lane is

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