Mississippi Motorcycle practice
Mississippi Motorcycle: Turning & Cornering practice test
Countersteering, the slow-look-press-roll technique, and choosing the right line through a curve at motorcycle speeds.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
13 questions · pass with 10 correct. You get instant feedback and an explanation after every answer.
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12 sample Turning & Cornering 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. Why does the manual warn that every curve is different?
Correct answer: Because a curve may hold steady, widen, tighten or contain several bends
A curve may hold a constant radius, open out gradually, tighten up, or string several bends together — so read it before you commit and stay inside your own skill level and the posted limit.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Crash Avoidance, Curves
2. In an ordinary turn taken at road speed, how should rider and machine be positioned?
Correct answer: Rider and machine lean together at the same angle
In normal turns the rider leans with the motorcycle, both at the same angle.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Basic Vehicle Control, Turning
3. How should you use your head and eyes going through a turn?
Correct answer: Turn your head only, look through the corner, and hold your eyes level with the horizon
Look through the corner toward your exit. Your head turns; your shoulders stay put; your eyes stay level with the horizon.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Basic Vehicle Control, Turning
4. What typically goes wrong when a rider enters a curve carrying too much speed?
Correct answer: They drift into another lane or off the road, or overbrake and skid
Riders who cannot hold the line end up crossing into another lane or off the road, or they panic and brake so hard they skid and lose control.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Basic Vehicle Control, Turning
5. What is the advantage of the alternative curve line that keeps you in the middle of your lane throughout?
Correct answer: It lets you spot approaching traffic as soon as possible
Holding the center of your lane from entry to exit lets you pick up oncoming traffic as early as possible, and leaves room to adjust for vehicles crowding the center line or debris in part of your lane.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Crash Avoidance, Curves
6. To make a moving motorcycle lean and turn to the left, what do you do with the handgrips?
Correct answer: Press the left grip
The machine has to lean to turn, and pressing the grip on the side you want to go leans it that way: press the left grip and you lean and go left.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Basic Vehicle Control, Turning
7. What does the manual name as a leading cause of crashes involving only the motorcycle?
Correct answer: Running wide in a curve and hitting the road or a fixed object
Riding wide through a bend and hitting the pavement edge or a fixed object is a leading cause of crashes that involve no other vehicle.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Crash Avoidance, Curves
8. With no other traffic around, what line through a curve gives the best view and the widest effective radius?
Correct answer: Start at the outside, move to the inside through the turn, then drift back out to exit
Begin wide at the outside of the curve to open your sight line, drift toward the inside as you turn, and move back out toward the exit once you pass the middle.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Crash Avoidance, Curves
9. At what point in a turn should speed be reduced?
Correct answer: Before entering it, by closing the throttle and braking if needed
Get rid of the speed before the corner arrives: close the throttle, and use both brakes if you need them.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Basic Vehicle Control, Turning
10. What four steps does the manual give for taking a turn or curve under control?
Correct answer: Slow, look, press and roll
Slow, look, press and roll: shed speed first, look through to where you want to end up, press the grip to lean, then roll the throttle on to settle the machine.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Basic Vehicle Control, Turning
11. How does the lean angle a turn requires change with speed and sharpness?
Correct answer: Higher speed or a sharper corner calls for a greater lean angle
The faster you go through a corner, or the tighter that corner is, the more the machine has to lean.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Basic Vehicle Control, Turning
12. What is the right technique for a slow, tight turn such as a parking-lot maneuver?
Correct answer: Lean the machine only and keep your body straight
Counterbalance: let the motorcycle lean over on its own while you hold your own body upright.
Source: Motorcycle Operator Manual — Basic Vehicle Control, Turning
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