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North Dakota 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. A rectangular sign displays white symbols over a blue face. What is it advertising?
Correct answer: Services available to travelers
Blue-backed symbol signs belong to the service group, marking things a traveler may need such as a telephone, fuel, or a hospital.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Guide Signs
2. At a railroad crossing, what does the smaller sign mounted below the crossbuck tell you?
Correct answer: How many sets of rails you must clear
When a crossing carries more than a single track, a plate under the crossbuck states how many tracks you must clear before the way is truly open.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Railroad Crossings
3. You are on a ramp when a WRONG WAY sign comes into view facing you. What does it mean?
Correct answer: You are heading against traffic and must not continue
That sign tells a driver he or she has entered a street, freeway, or ramp against the flow of traffic and must not keep going.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Regulatory Signs
4. A yellow panel carrying a black legend is telling a North Dakota driver what?
Correct answer: Something hazardous may lie ahead, so ease off and stay alert
Yellow faces with black markings make up the warning family, flagging a possibly hazardous condition ahead so you can approach with extra caution.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Warning Signs
5. White symbols printed over a brown face mark which kind of destination in North Dakota?
Correct answer: A recreational area
Brown is reserved for recreational area signs, which use white symbols to steer drivers toward parks and similar sites.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Guide Signs
6. A round yellow sign lettered in black appears well before some tracks. What is it telling you?
Correct answer: Tracks are coming up, so slow down and be ready to halt
This is the advance warning for a railroad crossing; the manual tells drivers to reduce speed so a safe halt is possible if a train turns out to be coming.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Railroad Crossings
7. What do the numbers printed on North Dakota's milepost signs actually count?
Correct answer: The miles from the state's south or west edge, or from where the route starts
A milepost tells you how many miles separate you from the southern or western edge of the state, or from the point where that route begins inside the state.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Guide Signs
8. An orange triangle edged with reflective red is mounted on the back of a vehicle. What does it tell you?
Correct answer: The vehicle moves at 25 miles per hour or less
That emblem marks equipment being driven or towed at no more than 25 miles per hour, so the manual tells following drivers to reduce speed and use care.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Warning Signs
9. School and pedestrian warning signs in North Dakota may appear in which two colors?
Correct answer: Ordinary yellow or a fluorescent yellow-green
The manual allows either the standard yellow used for warnings or a brighter fluorescent yellow-green face for school and pedestrian signing.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Warning Signs
10. North Dakota describes two shapes for the no-passing message. Where does the pennant-shaped version go?
Correct answer: On the left-hand side of the roadway
The rectangle carrying that message sits along the right edge of the road, while the yellow pennant is placed on the left-hand side.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Regulatory Signs
11. How many sides does the single North Dakota sign that always demands a full halt have?
Correct answer: Eight
Only one sign in the manual is drawn with an octagonal outline, and that shape always orders a complete halt ahead of the stop line or crosswalk.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Regulatory Signs
12. Guide signs that point you toward a destination carry which color combination?
Correct answer: White wording on a green face
Signs giving direction are rectangles lettered in white over a green face, and they carry distances, junctions, and route information.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Guide Signs
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