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Vermont 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. A power failure has left the traffic signal at an intersection completely dark. How should you treat that intersection?
Correct answer: As though every approach has a stop sign
When the lights are out entirely, each driver stops as though stop signs faced every approach, then proceeds in turn.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Traffic Lights
2. Where must you stop for a steady red light?
Correct answer: Behind the stop line or the crosswalk, whichever you reach first
Come to rest short of the painted stop line or the crosswalk, taking whichever you reach first, and wait for green.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Traffic Lights
3. Driving on a divided highway, you see that the edge line on your right is yellow. What has happened?
Correct answer: You are traveling the wrong way
On a divided highway the line at your right should be white, so a yellow one means you are headed against the flow and must correct at once.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Safe Driving on the Interstate
4. A flashing yellow arrow appears in your left-turn signal. What does it mean?
Correct answer: You may turn once you yield, because oncoming traffic has green
The flashing yellow arrow permits a left turn only after you give way to approaching vehicles and to anyone in the crosswalk, because the opposing traffic is seeing green.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Arrows
5. A signal that has failed is now flashing red toward you. What do you do?
Correct answer: Stop, then go when the way is clear
A flashing red circle carries the meaning of a stop sign: halt, give way to people on foot, bicyclists and vehicles, then continue.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Traffic Lights
6. What does Vermont generally allow at a steady round red light when you want to turn right?
Correct answer: A turn after a complete stop, a scan of the intersection, and yielding
Right turns on a circular red are usually permitted once the driver has stopped fully, scanned the intersection and given way to people crossing and to other vehicles, unless a sign forbids the turn.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Traffic Lights
7. On a multi-lane road with no median, what marks the boundary between the two directions of travel?
Correct answer: A pair of solid yellow lines
Yellow center lines separate opposing traffic, and on a multi-lane road without a median a double solid pair marks that division.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Highway Markings
8. How should a center two-way left turn lane be used?
Correct answer: Entered shortly before your turn, with the whole vehicle inside it
Drivers from both directions turn left out of that lane, so it is never a travel lane; signal, move in a short way before the turn, and keep the whole vehicle inside so traffic is not blocked.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Highway Markings
9. The center marking shows a solid line on your side and a broken line on the other side. What does that mean?
Correct answer: You should not pass, though the oncoming driver may
The broken half of the marking belongs to the lane allowed to overtake, so with the solid line on your side you stay put while the other driver may pass.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Highway Markings
10. What does a broken white line between two lanes tell you?
Correct answer: Both lanes carry traffic in the same direction
Broken white lines split a roadway into lanes for vehicles headed the same way.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Highway Markings
11. The light turns yellow as you near an intersection and you are too close to stop safely. What should you do?
Correct answer: Carry on through the intersection carefully
Yellow warns that red is coming, and a driver already too close to halt safely continues through with caution.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Traffic Lights
12. A solid red arrow is displayed for your left-turn lane. What is permitted?
Correct answer: Nothing at all, so stop and wait
Drivers facing a steady red arrow stop and wait, and they may not pull into the intersection to make the turn.
Source: Vermont Driver's Manual — Chapter 7, Arrows
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