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Rhode Island 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. When may a Rhode Island driver pull into a center shared turn lane?
Correct answer: Only when the turn will be made within the next hundred feet
The lane is for turning only; a driver enters it just before the turn, with the maneuver to be completed within the next hundred feet.
2. What is a steady yellow light telling a Rhode Island driver?
Correct answer: Red is next, so slow down and continue only if a safe stop is impossible
It is notice that red comes next. Slow down, and only carry through the intersection when stopping could not be done safely.
Source: Rhode Island Driver's Manual - Traffic Lights/Signals
3. A green arrow is displayed above a reversible lane. What does it mean?
Correct answer: Traffic may use that lane at the moment
The green arrow tells drivers that this lane is open to them in the direction they are heading right now.
4. What do solid lane lines tell a Rhode Island driver?
Correct answer: Stay in your lane, since passing and lane changes are not permitted there
They mark off lanes that you are meant to stay inside; passing and lane changing are ruled out, though an emergency such as a breakdown or an obstacle can justify crossing.
5. Which markings frame a shared left turn lane in Rhode Island?
Correct answer: Solid yellow on the outside with broken yellow inside
A solid yellow line runs down each outer edge of the lane, with a broken yellow line inside it, and turn arrows are painted on the surface.
6. How is a right turn shown by hand in Rhode Island?
Correct answer: The left arm is raised and held still
The left arm goes up, bent at the elbow, and is held motionless in that raised position.
7. What is a shared lane marking painted down the middle of a travel lane for?
Correct answer: It warns that a cyclist may use the full lane and shows where riders will sit in it
It tells drivers a rider may take up the whole lane, shows roughly where riders will be positioned, and helps cut down on people cycling against traffic.
8. A driver's left arm points downward and stays still. What is being signaled?
Correct answer: The vehicle is slowing or stopping
An arm held down is the hand signal for slowing or coming to a stop.
9. A flashing yellow arrow lets you turn in the arrow's direction on what condition?
Correct answer: Only after yielding to oncoming traffic and to people crossing
The turn is unprotected. Oncoming drivers are looking at a steady green, so you go only after you have yielded to them and to anyone crossing on foot.
Source: Rhode Island Driver's Manual - Traffic Lights/Signals
10. On a two-lane road the broken half of a solid-and-broken yellow pair is on your side. What may you do?
Correct answer: Pass with care once the road ahead is clear
The broken line belongs to your direction, so passing is open to you when you can complete it safely and carefully.
11. What do broken white lines on a Rhode Island roadway permit?
Correct answer: Changing lanes and passing vehicles going your way
White separates traffic traveling the same way, and where the white line is broken a driver may change lanes or pass.
12. What job do yellow pavement lines do in Rhode Island?
Correct answer: They separate traffic moving in opposite directions
Yellow keeps apart streams of traffic that are heading opposite ways, which is why a solid yellow pair means no passing.
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