New Jersey Car / Permit practice
Signals & Pavement Markings
How to read traffic signals, lane lines, and pavement markings — including yellow and white lines, arrows, and flashing lights.
Questions reviewed against the official New Jersey driver handbook · July 7, 2026
15 questions · pass with 12 correct. You get instant feedback and an explanation after every answer.
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12 sample Signals & Pavement Markings questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the official handbook reference. Read through them, then take the quiz above.
1. A single solid white line painted across a road at an intersection tells a driver to do what?
Correct answer: Stop behind the line when required
A solid white stop line across the road marks where you must stop for a signal or sign; stop behind the line.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Intersections
2. How should a driver treat an intersection where the traffic signal is completely dark and no one is directing traffic?
Correct answer: As though it were a four-way stop
A signal with no working lights and no officer present is treated as a four-way stop. Look both ways, yield to traffic on the right or left, and go only when safe.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
3. What should a driver do at a steadily flashing red traffic signal?
Correct answer: Stop, yield, and go when it is safe
A flashing red light means the same as a stop sign: stop, yield to traffic and pedestrians, and proceed only when it is safe.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
4. What does a steady orange (upraised palm) pedestrian signal mean for someone on foot?
Correct answer: Do not step off the curb into the road
The steady orange raised-palm signal tells pedestrians not to leave the curb or enter the roadway; those already crossing should continue to a safe spot.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
5. At a green arrow signal, a driver may do what?
Correct answer: Turn only in the direction the arrow points
A green arrow, shown alone or with a red signal, allows movement only in the direction the arrow points, and you must still yield to pedestrians.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
6. Yellow lines painted down the center of a two-way roadway are used to do what?
Correct answer: Separate lanes moving in opposite directions
Yellow center lines separate traffic that is moving in opposite directions.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Road Markings
7. A steady yellow traffic light appearing after a green light means what?
Correct answer: The signal is about to turn red; prepare to stop
A steady yellow warns that the light is about to turn red. Stop before entering the intersection unless you are already too close to stop safely.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Stopping Regulations
8. What do white lines on a roadway generally indicate?
Correct answer: Lanes going the same way, or road edges
White lines separate lanes of traffic traveling in the same direction and mark the edges of the roadway.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Road Markings
9. What does a flashing yellow traffic signal indicate?
Correct answer: Reduce speed and continue carefully
A flashing yellow light means slow down and proceed with caution through the intersection.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
10. If a solid yellow line is on your side of the center line, what does it mean?
Correct answer: You must not pass
A solid yellow line on your side of the road prohibits passing. You may pass only when a broken (dashed) yellow line is on your side and it is safe.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Road Markings
11. Diamond symbols painted on a lane's pavement identify that lane as what?
Correct answer: A high-occupancy vehicle lane
White diamonds mark high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, which are reserved for certain vehicle types or vehicles carrying multiple riders during posted hours.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Road Markings
12. When traffic signal lights are arranged vertically, which light is always positioned at the top?
Correct answer: The red light
On a vertical signal the red light is on top, yellow in the middle, and green below; any green arrow is at the very bottom.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
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