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New Jersey Motorcycle: Safe Driving Practices practice test
Following distance, scanning, blind spots, using your lights, and the habits that prevent crashes and keep you in control.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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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.
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1. In the identify step of SIPDE, hazards fall into which three groups?
Correct answer: Vehicles, people and animals, and fixed objects
The manual sorts them into other vehicles, unpredictable pedestrians and animals, and fixed objects such as potholes, guardrails, signs, or hedges.
2. How should you work the controls once the pavement turns slippery?
Correct answer: As sparingly and gradually as you can
Any abrupt change of speed or direction can break traction on a slick surface, so steering, braking, throttle, and gear changes should all be small and smooth.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — Handling Dangerous Surfaces
3. The decide step of SIPDE offers three ways to cut a hazard down. What are they?
Correct answer: Communicate, adjust speed, and adjust position
A rider can make presence and intentions known, alter speed by accelerating, slowing, or stopping, and alter position within the lane or by changing direction entirely.
4. A patch of ice lies ahead and there is no way around it. How do you cross?
Correct answer: Go straight, hold your speed, pull in the clutch, and coast
The manual says to hold a straight line, leave the speed alone, and coast over with the clutch pulled in rather than changing anything mid-patch.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — Handling Dangerous Surfaces
5. What should you do before setting off on a motorcycle you have borrowed?
Correct answer: Locate every control so you can reach it without looking
Find the turn signals, horn, headlight switch, fuel valve, and cut-off switch by feel, learn the gear pattern, and ride gently until you know how the machine behaves.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — Get Familiar with the Motorcycle
6. How can a vehicle traveling ahead of you help after dark?
Correct answer: Its lamps reveal more road, and bouncing taillights hint at rough pavement
Its lamps reach farther down the road than one motorcycle headlight can, and taillights that jump up and down hint at a bump or broken pavement waiting for you.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — Ride Cautiously at Night
7. Why does the manual insist on a gauge for checking tire pressure?
Correct answer: A tire can be short of air and still look normal
Pressure can fall well below the figure in the owner's manual while the tire still looks perfectly normal, and a motorcycle handles badly when the air is off in either direction.
8. At night, how does your headlight limit a safe riding speed?
Correct answer: Ride slowly enough to stop inside the lit area
A single beam shows only so much roadway, so keep speed low enough to come to a halt inside the stretch the light reaches.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — Ride Cautiously at Night
9. Why is the oil level worth checking before you ride?
Correct answer: Too little oil can seize the engine and lock the rear wheel
An engine starved of oil can seize, and a seizure locks the rear wheel and costs the rider control.
10. An oncoming vehicle's high beams have dazzled you. Where should you direct your eyes?
Correct answer: Toward the right-hand side of the road until it passes
Recovering from that glare takes several seconds, during which a lot of road goes by, so shift your gaze toward the right edge until the vehicle is past instead of flashing your own high beams back.
11. What do the letters of the SIPDE riding system stand for?
Correct answer: Scan, identify, predict, decide, execute
SIPDE names the judgment routine experienced riders run in traffic: scan, identify, predict, decide, execute.
12. Which three habits make up the crash-prevention formula in the driver manual?
Correct answer: Be alert, be prepared, and act in time
Since most crashes trace back to a driver's mistake, the manual asks you to expect errors from others, to know in advance what to do, and to react without panicking.
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