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Rhode Island 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. An emergency vehicle is coming up behind you on a Rhode Island road. What should you do?
Correct answer: Move over to the right, halt there, and let it go by
Move to the right, stop, and hold there until it has gone by; then signal, check over your shoulder for a second emergency vehicle, and rejoin traffic.
Source: Rhode Island Driver's Manual - Safe Driving on the Highway
2. Somebody steps into the road between parked cars where no crosswalk is painted. What does the manual say?
Correct answer: The driver still has to yield
Even when a pedestrian crosses carelessly, the duty to yield still rests with the driver.
3. At a four-way stop in Rhode Island, whom must you let go ahead of you?
Correct answer: Every driver who stopped there before you arrived
Everyone who came to a halt at the intersection before you did goes first; drivers arriving after you then wait for their turn behind you.
4. What does the Rhode Island manual tell you to do as you leave a roundabout?
Correct answer: Signal, leave to the right, and yield to people on foot
Signal your departure, take the exit to the right, and let anyone using the crosswalk finish crossing first.
Source: Rhode Island Driver's Manual - Rotary/Roundabout Diagram
5. When may a Rhode Island driver keep going past a school bus showing flashing red lights?
Correct answer: When the bus is on the far side of a divided highway
The one exception is a divided highway, where a barrier, guardrail, median or similar divider separates the bus from your side of the road.
6. A school bus ahead of you has its red lights flashing in a parking lot. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop and remain stopped until the red lights stop flashing
The stopping requirement is not limited to public highways; it reaches private roads and parking lots too, and you stay stopped until the red lights go dark.
7. The turning steps in the Rhode Island manual close with which duty toward people on foot?
Correct answer: Always let pedestrians in the street go first
Every turn ends the same way: pedestrians in the street are given the right-of-way before the driver completes the maneuver.
8. An intersection has no signs and no signals at all. How does Rhode Island tell you to treat it?
Correct answer: As though you were facing a yield sign
The manual calls these uncontrolled intersections and tells drivers to behave as though a yield sign were facing them.
Source: Rhode Island Driver's Manual - Traffic Lights/Signals
9. How much room must a Rhode Island driver leave when traveling behind an emergency vehicle?
Correct answer: 500 feet
The manual sets the trailing distance at five hundred feet.
Source: Rhode Island Driver's Manual - Safe Driving on the Highway
10. Two cars reach a Rhode Island four-way stop at the same instant. Who moves first?
Correct answer: The driver on the right
When arrivals tie, the tie is broken in favor of the driver on the right.
11. You are waiting to turn left at a Rhode Island intersection. Which vehicles hold the right-of-way?
Correct answer: The vehicle coming straight at you and the one approaching from your right
The manual names two: the vehicle coming directly toward you, and the vehicle approaching from your right. Both go before your turn.
12. What does the Move Over law ask of a Rhode Island driver on a multi-lane road?
Correct answer: Change into a lane further away as soon as it is safe, or slow down if you cannot
Shift into a lane further away from the stopped vehicle the moment it can be done safely; where no lane change is possible, cut your speed instead.
Source: Rhode Island Driver's Manual - Safe Driving on the Highway
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