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North Dakota Car / Permit: Right-of-Way practice test
Who goes first at intersections, four-way stops, roundabouts, and crosswalks, and how to yield to pedestrians and emergency vehicles.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. A pedestrian carrying a white cane steps toward the curb. What does the manual expect of you?
Correct answer: Give way and stop behind the crosswalk so the path stays clear
A white cane or a guide dog signals blindness or greatly reduced vision, and drivers are required to give way or stop; halting behind the crosswalk keeps the traveler's path open.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Right of Way
2. A driver is coming down an entrance ramp onto a freeway. Who has to give way?
Correct answer: The driver entering from the ramp
Unless signing says something else, the vehicle joining from an entrance ramp is the one that must yield to traffic already on the main roadway.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Interchanges
3. A maintenance truck sits on a multi-lane highway with its work lights flashing. What does the manual expect?
Correct answer: Shift into the lane away from it and proceed with care
When an emergency, law enforcement, or state transportation vehicle is stopped on the Interstate or a multi-lane road with lights going, you move over into the far lane and keep going carefully.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Right of Way
4. In what order does the manual suggest you look as you enter an intersection?
Correct answer: Left, then right, then left once more
The recommended scan is left first, then right, then back to the left again, with a readiness to give way to anyone already coming.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Right of Way
5. A school bus ahead of you is stopped with red lights flashing. Who has to stop?
Correct answer: Drivers approaching from both directions
Red flashing lights on a stopped school bus require drivers coming from both directions to halt, because children are getting on or off.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Right of Way
6. You are pulling out of a private driveway onto a street. What is required of you?
Correct answer: You must halt before the sidewalk and let road traffic go by
A driver leaving a driveway, an alley, or a building inside a business area or a neighborhood has to stop fully before the sidewalk, then give way to traffic already using the road.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Right of Way
7. What must a driver entering a North Dakota roundabout give way to?
Correct answer: People on foot, bicyclists, and traffic already circulating
Approaching a roundabout you slow down, let pedestrians and bicyclists cross, and yield to the traffic already circulating before you enter.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Roundabouts
8. At an uncontrolled T-intersection, which driver must give way?
Correct answer: The driver on the street that ends there
The road that dead-ends into the other is the terminating street, and traffic on it has to let the continuing street's traffic go by.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Right of Way
9. An ambulance behind you has its lights flashing and siren sounding. What must you do?
Correct answer: Pull to the right edge and stay stopped until it passes
The manual directs drivers to pull over promptly to the right-hand curb or edge and stay there until the emergency vehicle has gone by; stopping in the middle of an intersection is specifically ruled out.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Right of Way
10. You have stopped for a school bus. Which of these lets you go on?
Correct answer: The red lights have quit flashing
You may move again once the bus starts rolling, once its driver waves traffic past, or once the red lights stop flashing.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Right of Way
11. What does the manual say about pedestrians in crosswalks that carry no paint at all?
Correct answer: They hold the right-of-way just as they would in a marked crossing
People on foot hold the right-of-way in crosswalks whether or not the crossing is painted, and drivers must give way once a pedestrian is in their lane of travel.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Right of Way
12. Four vehicles arrive one after another at a four-way stop. Who moves through first?
Correct answer: Whichever driver came to rest first
The order at a four-way stop follows arrival: whoever halted first is entitled to move off first, and if a driver jumps the order you should let that car go rather than risk a collision.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Right of Way
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