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Nebraska Car / Permit: Signals & Pavement Markings practice test
How to read traffic signals, lane lines, and pavement markings — including yellow and white lines, arrows, and flashing lights.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. In Nebraska, when is a left turn on a circular red light allowed?
Correct answer: Only when you are on a one-way street turning onto another one-way street
The manual permits it only where you are already on a one-way street and are turning onto another one-way street, and only after stopping.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3A-2 Turning on Red
2. What are rumble strips built into a Nebraska roadway meant to do?
Correct answer: Warn a tired or distracted driver by sound and vibration
Their vibration and noise are designed to snap a drowsy or inattentive driver back to attention after drifting out of the lane or while nearing a stop sign or signal.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3C-4 Other Pavement Markings
3. A broken yellow line runs down the center of a Nebraska two-lane road. What does it allow?
Correct answer: Passing on the left when the road ahead is clear
A broken yellow center line permits overtaking on the left whenever the road ahead is clear, though oncoming traffic makes care essential.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3C-1 Yellow Center Line Markings
4. Speeding up in order to get through before a Nebraska signal turns red is what?
Correct answer: Against the law
The manual is explicit that racing the light is against the law.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3A-1 Color and Types
5. You are in a Nebraska lane whose pavement shows a curving arrow beside the word ONLY. What must you do?
Correct answer: Turn the way the arrow points
The manual requires you to follow the arrow, so the lane commits you to that turn.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3C-3 White Lane Line Markings
6. What do white lines painted between lanes of a Nebraska roadway indicate?
Correct answer: Lanes carrying traffic in the same direction
White separates lanes whose traffic is headed the same way, and a broken white line may be crossed with care.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3C-3 White Lane Line Markings
7. A steady yellow light appears while you are still approaching a Nebraska intersection. What should you do?
Correct answer: Bring the vehicle to a safe stop before entering
The manual treats steady yellow as notice that red is coming, so a vehicle that has not yet entered should be brought to a safe halt.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3A-1 Color and Types
8. A center lane is bounded by a solid yellow line on the outside and a broken yellow line on the inside. What may that lane be used for?
Correct answer: Left turns made by drivers from either direction
The manual reserves this shared lane for left turns taken by traffic from both directions, and it says using it to overtake another vehicle is not allowed.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3C-2 Yellow Lane Line Markings
9. A flashing yellow arrow is displayed for your turn lane. What are you permitted to do?
Correct answer: Make the turn shown, after yielding to pedestrians and other traffic
The manual lets you ease into the intersection for that one movement, once you have given way to walkers in the adjacent crosswalk and to any other vehicles already using it.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3A-1 Color and Types
10. A flashing yellow light at a Nebraska intersection means what?
Correct answer: Stay alert and move ahead carefully
Flashing yellow is a call for extra alertness, so the manual tells drivers to keep going but with added care.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3A-1 Color and Types
11. What is the standard order in which an automated Nebraska traffic signal changes?
Correct answer: Green, then yellow, then red, then green again
The manual sets out the cycle as green first, then yellow, then red, and back to green again.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3A Traffic Signals
12. What does a steady yellow X displayed above a Nebraska lane tell you?
Correct answer: Clear out of the lane as soon as you safely can
The manual explains that this display is a countdown to a red X, so you should leave that lane at the first safe opportunity.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3A-3 Lane Use Signals
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