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Kansas 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. What is the blue Emergency Notification System sign found at Kansas highway-rail grade crossings used for?
Correct answer: Reporting a problem or emergency at that particular crossing
The blue ENS sign lists a toll-free railroad dispatch number staffed around the clock, plus a number identifying that exact crossing, so anyone can report a stalled vehicle, a broken gate or another hazard.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Railroad Crossing Warning Signs
2. A round yellow sign carrying a large X and the letters RR appears beside a Kansas road. What is it telling you?
Correct answer: A grade crossing lies ahead, so slow down and watch for a train
This advance warning sign is placed before a highway-railroad grade crossing so you can slow, look and listen for a train and be ready to halt if one is coming.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Railroad Crossing Warning Signs
3. What does a Kansas regulatory sign showing a symbol behind a red circle with a red slash across it mean?
Correct answer: The pictured maneuver is banned there
The circle and slash treatment marks a prohibition, so the maneuver pictured inside it is forbidden at that location.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Regulatory Signs
4. Where is the white X-shaped sign reading "Railroad Crossing" placed, and what must you do there?
Correct answer: At the grade crossing itself, where you must wait for any approaching train
That crossbuck stands at the crossing itself. If a train or railroad vehicle is coming, your car has to stay behind the stop line or short of the crossing until the way is clear.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Railroad Crossing Warning Signs
5. What does the Kansas sign reading SCHOOL SPEED LIMIT WHEN FLASHING tell a driver?
Correct answer: The lower number applies only while the lights are flashing
The reduced number applies only while the beacons are flashing. At all other hours you follow the ordinary posted limit for that roadway.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Regulatory Signs
6. You pass a blue rectangular sign with white symbols along a Kansas highway. What information does it give?
Correct answer: Where nearby services such as fuel, food or a hospital can be found
Blue signs are service signs; they mark where drivers can find rest areas, fuel, lodging, food or hospitals.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Guide Signs
7. A square Kansas sign shows a white horizontal bar inside a red circle. What does it require?
Correct answer: You may not drive into that opening at all
That is the Do Not Enter sign. It marks openings you may not drive into, such as exit ramps taken backwards, crossovers on divided roads and many one-way street entrances.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Regulatory Signs
8. A Kansas sign marks a lane in the middle of the road as SHARED CENTER LANE LEFT TURN ONLY. How may that lane be used?
Correct answer: By drivers from either direction who are preparing to turn left
Drivers heading either direction may enter this lane to set up a left turn. Using it to travel through or to overtake another vehicle is not permitted.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Regulatory Signs
9. Some Kansas warning signs are printed on fluorescent yellow instead of standard yellow. Which situations use that brighter background?
Correct answer: School zones, school crossings and pedestrian crossings
The manual notes that the fluorescent yellow background is reserved for signs covering school zones, school crossings and pedestrian crossings so they stand out.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Warning Signs
10. Which Kansas warning sign is the only one made in a pennant shape, and where is it posted?
Correct answer: The no passing zone sign, posted on the left side of the road
The pennant shape belongs solely to the sign announcing that a no passing stretch begins, and it is mounted on the driver's left so it faces oncoming drivers.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 2, Passing
11. Kansas uses fluorescent pink signs with black lettering for what purpose?
Correct answer: To warn of an unplanned incident that may close or detour the road
Pink signs are the incident series. They go up temporarily to warn of a crash, a spill, a natural disaster or another unplanned event that closes or detours the road.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Incident Signs
12. What colors are used on the temporary signs that mark a Kansas highway work zone?
Correct answer: Black lettering or symbols on an orange background
Construction, maintenance and emergency operation signs use an orange background with black wording or symbols, and they are generally diamond or rectangular in outline.
Source: Kansas Driving Handbook — Section 6, Work Zone Signs
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