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Mississippi Car / Permit: Traffic Laws practice test
Speed limits, turning and signaling rules, headlight and seat-belt requirements, and the everyday laws every driver must follow.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. How long does a new Mississippi resident have to obtain a Mississippi driver license?
Correct answer: Sixty days
Once you move into the state, the manual gives you sixty days to trade your out-of-state credential for a Mississippi one.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — License Requirements
2. What does the manual say about carrying a rearview mirror in a Mississippi passenger car?
Correct answer: It is not required by law but is recommended
State law stops short of requiring an interior mirror in an ordinary car, though the manual still recommends having one.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Vehicle Equipment
3. Which of these is specifically not allowed while driving in Mississippi?
Correct answer: Posting to a social media page from a hand-held phone
Using a hand-held phone to read or post on a social networking site while behind the wheel is banned, as are writing, sending and reading texts.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Avoiding Distractions
4. What color may a spotlight or auxiliary lamp on a private Mississippi vehicle never show?
Correct answer: Red or blue
Red and blue are off limits for those extra lamps, because those colors belong to emergency vehicles.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Vehicle Equipment
5. Under the squatted vehicle law, a passenger car is unlawful when the front fender is raised how much above the rear fender?
Correct answer: Four inches or more
Raising the front fender four inches or more above the rear one, by altering the suspension, frame or chassis, puts the vehicle outside the law.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Squatted Vehicle Law
6. Who has to be belted when a passenger vehicle moves forward on a Mississippi road?
Correct answer: The driver and every passenger, front or rear
State law reaches every seat. The person driving and each rider must have a properly fastened belt, front or rear.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Seat Belts, Car Seats, and Child Restraints
7. A Mississippi vehicle with aftermarket window film must carry a windshield label certifying what?
Correct answer: That the windows pass at least twenty-eight percent of light
The label must certify that the vehicle windows let through at least twenty-eight percent of light.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Window Tint Certificate & Decal
8. How must a child younger than four years old ride in a Mississippi vehicle?
Correct answer: Fastened into a child passenger restraint device that meets safety standards
Children under four have to be fastened into a child passenger restraint device that meets the applicable safety standards.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Seat Belts, Car Seats, and Child Restraints
9. A five-year-old rider is under four feet nine inches tall and weighs fifty pounds. What does Mississippi law require?
Correct answer: A belt-positioning booster seat that meets safety standards
Children at least four but under seven who fall below that height or weight must ride in a belt-positioning booster seat that meets safety standards.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Seat Belts, Car Seats, and Child Restraints
10. A parking brake must be able to bring the car to rest within what distance from twenty miles per hour?
Correct answer: Fifty-five feet
The parking brake standard is looser than the foot brake standard: it must bring the car to rest inside fifty-five feet at that speed.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Vehicle Equipment
11. Where must a Mississippi license plate be mounted, and what must make it readable at night?
Correct answer: On the rear, lit so it can be read from sixty feet
The tag goes on the back of the vehicle, and a tag lamp has to make its characters legible from sixty feet in the dark.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Required Vehicle Documentation
12. How far away must a Mississippi vehicle horn be audible?
Correct answer: Two hundred feet
The horn has to be loud enough for someone two hundred feet away to hear it. Sirens and whistles, by contrast, are illegal.
Source: Mississippi Driver's License Manual — Vehicle Equipment
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