Safe Driving Practices

Study questions with answers

12 sample Safe Driving Practices questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the official handbook reference. Read through them, then take the quiz above.

1. 1. Keeping your knees against the gas tank while riding mainly helps you:

   Correct answer: Keep your balance as the motorcycle turns

   Pressing your knees to the tank aids your balance as the motorcycle leans and turns.

   Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - Basic Vehicle Control (Body Position)

2. 2. A windshield on a motorcycle:

   Correct answer: Does not take the place of goggles or a face shield

   A windshield does not replace a face shield or goggles, because it will not keep the wind out of your eyes.

   Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - Preparing to Ride (Eye and Face Protection)

3. 3. In the MSF SEE strategy, the three letters stand for:

   Correct answer: Search, Evaluate, Execute

   SEE is a three-step method: Search, Evaluate, and Execute.

   Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - SEE

4. 4. Experienced riders search for distant hazards about how far ahead in terms of travel time?

   Correct answer: 12 seconds ahead

   Riders scan ahead to a spot that would take roughly twelve seconds to reach so they can prepare well in advance.

   Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - SEE (Search)

5. 5. During the day, a motorcycle with its headlight on is about how much more likely to be noticed?

   Correct answer: Twice as likely

   Research shows a daytime headlight roughly doubles the odds that a motorcycle will be seen by others.

   Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - Increasing Conspicuity (Headlight)

6. 6. The four steps for taking a turn under good control are:

   Correct answer: Slow, Look, Press, Roll

   The manual teaches Slow, Look, Press, and Roll as the sequence for a controlled turn.

   Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - Riding Within Your Abilities (Turning)

7. 7. In a slow, tight turn a rider keeps the best control by:

   Correct answer: Keeping the body upright and leaning only the motorcycle

   For slow, tight turns you counterbalance by leaning the motorcycle only while keeping your body upright.

   Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - Riding Within Your Abilities (Turning)

8. 8. When applying the front brake, you should:

   Correct answer: Squeeze it smoothly and progressively

   Squeeze the front brake smoothly and with steadily increasing force rather than grabbing it, which can lock the wheel.

   Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - Riding Within Your Abilities (Braking)

9. 9. Compared with daytime, riding at night calls for you to:

   Correct answer: Reduce speed and increase following distance

   Because seeing is harder after dark, slow down and open a following distance of three seconds or more.

   Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - Riding at Night

10. 10. To lean and steer a motorcycle to the left at higher speed, you press on:

    Correct answer: The left handgrip

    Pressing the left grip leans the bike to the left so it goes left; pressing the right grip leans and turns it right.

    Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - Riding Within Your Abilities (Turning)

11. 11. To be seen more easily in daylight, a rider should wear:

    Correct answer: Bright or reflective clothing

    Bright and reflective clothing sharply raises visibility, since the rider makes up about half of the whole rider-and-bike outline.

    Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - Increasing Conspicuity (Clothing)

12. 12. The front brake can supply at least what portion of a motorcycle's total stopping power?

    Correct answer: About 70%

    Used correctly, the stronger front brake provides at least seventy percent of the machine's stopping force.

    Source: Arizona Motorcycle Operator Manual - Riding Within Your Abilities (Braking)