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Montana Car / Permit: Signals & Pavement Markings practice test
How to read traffic signals, lane lines, and pavement markings — including yellow and white lines, arrows, and flashing lights.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. A flashing red signal carries the same meaning as which traffic control device?
Correct answer: A stop sign
Come to a complete halt, look each way and ahead, give way to traffic and to people on foot, and then move on when the way is clear.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Traffic Signals
2. You arrive at a Montana intersection where the traffic light is completely dark. How should you treat it?
Correct answer: Treat every approach as though it carried a stop sign
The manual says to handle a dead signal the way you would handle stop signs facing every approach, and to stay cautious even when you are first in line.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Traffic Signals
3. Two solid yellow lines run down the middle of a Montana road. What do they mean?
Correct answer: Drivers on neither side may pass
A pair of unbroken yellow stripes closes the pass for traffic approaching from either direction, so neither side may cross to overtake.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Road Markings
4. What does a steady yellow light instruct a Montana driver to do?
Correct answer: Treat it as caution because red follows, and stay out of the crossing unless halting would be unsafe
Yellow is the manual's caution phase warning that red is next, so you should stay out of the intersection unless you are already too close to halt without danger.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Traffic Signals
5. Facing a steady red light, where exactly does the manual tell you to stop?
Correct answer: At the stop line, or before the crosswalk, or before the intersection if neither is marked
The stopping point falls back in stages: the painted stop line first, then the near edge of the crosswalk, and finally the edge of the intersection if neither marking exists.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Traffic Signals
6. A flashing yellow arrow is displayed over your left-turn lane. What does it allow?
Correct answer: A left turn once you yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians and find a safe gap
Turning left is permitted, but drivers coming the other way are looking at green, so you have to judge the gap yourself and yield to them and to pedestrians.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Traffic Signals
7. Under what condition does Montana permit a left turn against a red light?
Correct answer: After a full stop, when the street you leave and the street you enter each carry traffic one way
The allowance is narrow: you must stop first, and both the street you leave and the street you enter must carry traffic in a single direction.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Traffic Signals
8. Is there any circumstance in which a Montana driver may cross a solid yellow centerline?
Correct answer: Yes, to turn left into a parking lot, driveway, or roadway when it is safe
The manual keeps one exception open: you may cross the unbroken line to make a left turn into a driveway, a parking area, or another roadway when doing so is safe.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Pavement Markings
9. After coming to a full stop at a red light, when may you turn right onto a two-way street in Montana?
Correct answer: Whenever no sign or officer forbids it, after yielding to people on foot, to riders, and to traffic already in the crossing
The turn is permitted unless a posted sign or an officer forbids it, and only once you have given way to people on foot, riders on bicycles, and traffic already in the intersection.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Traffic Signals
10. A pedestrian is already inside the crosswalk when the DON'T WALK display begins to flash. What should that person do?
Correct answer: Keep going and finish the crossing
Someone who has already stepped off the curb is expected to keep moving and complete the crossing rather than stopping or turning back in the roadway.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Traffic Signals
11. What do yellow lines painted between lanes tell a Montana driver?
Correct answer: The lanes on either side carry traffic in opposite directions
Yellow separates streams of traffic headed opposite ways, while white is used where the lanes on either side run in the same direction.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Pavement Markings
12. On a Montana pedestrian signal, which display means it is time to WALK?
Correct answer: A white figure of a person walking
The manual pairs the walking figure in white with permission to start across, while the raised hand in orange is the signal to stay on the curb.
Source: Montana Driver Manual — Chapter 3, Traffic Signals
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