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Minnesota Car / Permit: Road Signs practice test
Learn the shapes, colors, and meanings of regulatory, warning, and guide signs — from stop and yield to construction and school-zone signs.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. Green highway signs with white letters and numbers usually provide what information?
Correct answer: Directions, exits, and distances to destinations
Green is used for guidance, showing exits, route names, and how far away various cities or places are.
Source: Chapter 5 - Guidance and information signs
2. A blue sign with a white symbol most often points you toward what?
Correct answer: Services for travelers such as gas, food, or lodging
Blue guide signs mark motorist services such as fuel, food, rest areas, and hospitals.
Source: Chapter 5 - Motorist services signs
3. A pennant-shaped sign posted on the left side of a two-way road warns of what?
Correct answer: The start of a zone where passing is not allowed
The pennant-shaped No Passing Zone sign sits on the left and marks where passing on that stretch of two-way road becomes illegal.
Source: Chapter 5 - No Passing Zone
4. An X-shaped sign labeled RAILROAD CROSSING marks what?
Correct answer: The location of railroad tracks crossing the road
The crossbuck is the standard marker placed at a railroad crossing; a sign beneath it shows how many tracks you will cross.
Source: Chapter 5 - Railroad Crossings
5. Along a highway you notice a brown sign with white lettering. What does its color indicate?
Correct answer: A park, recreation area, or site of historic interest
Brown identifies cultural, historic, and recreational destinations such as parks and points of interest.
Source: Chapter 5 - Sign color meanings
6. A five-sided (pentagon) sign that may be yellow or fluorescent yellow-green warns you of what?
Correct answer: A school or school crosswalk nearby
The pentagon shape is used for school-zone and school-crossing signs; slow down and watch for children.
Source: Chapter 5 - School Zone
7. A sign reading Reduced Speed Ahead means what for the driver?
Correct answer: A lower speed limit begins shortly, so start slowing
This sign is advance notice that a slower posted limit is coming; begin easing off the accelerator before you reach it.
Source: Chapter 5 - Reduced Speed Ahead
8. If a Wrong Way sign faces you, what has happened?
Correct answer: You are headed into traffic coming toward you
A Wrong Way sign means you have entered a lane against the flow of traffic and are traveling the wrong direction; turn around safely.
Source: Chapter 5 - Wrong Way
9. You see a sign with black lettering on an orange background. What is it telling you?
Correct answer: You are entering a construction or maintenance work area
Orange is the color reserved for work zones; when you see it, expect workers, equipment, or changed traffic patterns and slow down.
Source: Chapter 5 - Construction signs
10. An eight-sided (octagon) sign is used exclusively for which instruction?
Correct answer: Bring your vehicle to a full stop
Only the stop sign uses the octagon shape, so its outline alone tells you to make a complete stop even before you can read the word.
Source: Chapter 5 - Common shapes
11. A symbol enclosed in a red circle with a diagonal red line through it tells you to do what?
Correct answer: Avoid the action shown by the symbol
A red circle-and-slash always forbids the pictured maneuver, such as no left turn, no U-turn, or no parking.
Source: Chapter 5 - Regulatory signs
12. What message does a diamond-shaped yellow sign with black symbols give a driver?
Correct answer: A possible hazard or changing condition is coming up on the road ahead
Yellow diamond signs are warnings; they alert you that something ahead, such as a curve or a merge, may require you to slow down or adjust.
Source: Chapter 5 - Warning signs
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