Study Questions

Question 0

Can a person temporarily operate a farm tractor on the highway without a driver license?

Answer 0

Yes, people who drive only vehicles like farm tractors or road machines temporarily on highways may drive without a license.

Question 1

If you knowingly make a false statement in an application for a drivers license or identification card, can you be fined or placed in a prison upon conviction?

Answer 1

Yes, penalties up to a maximum fine of $5,000 and inprisonment up to 5 years.

Question 2

You must obtain a new license showing the new address within how many days of moving?

Answer 2

You must obtain a new license within 10 days of any change to your mailing or residential address.

Question 3

If you lose your Florida driver license and need a replacement license, where do you apply for it?

Answer 3

To apply go to a State or Tax Collector issuance office, for a $25 fee if you provide a copy of the police report and there is no charges to the card.

Question 4

If you failed to answer a traffic summons, would you be able to renew your license?

Answer 4

No you will not be able to renew your license.

Question 5

What would happen to the license of the driver who was involved in an accident and did not stop to help others who were injured?

Answer 5

The license must be revoked if you are found guilty of, or department records show: not stopping to give help when the vehicle your are driving is involved in a crash causing death or personal injury.

Question 6

If you received 12 points within 12 months, for how long will your license is suspended?

Answer 6

The length of the suspension would be not more than 30 days.

Question 7

What are the penalties for driving under the influence (DUI)?

Answer 7

For the first DUI you receive:

• Fine from $500 - $1,000
• Community Service for 50 hours
• Probation not more than a year
• Inprisonment no more than 6 months: with BAL. 15 or higher or minor in the vehicle, not more than 9 months
• License Revocation minimum 180 days
• DUI School 12 hours
• Ignition Interlock Device up to 6 continuous months

Question 8

Both your judgement and vision are affected after drinking alcohol. Which is affected first?

Answer 8

Alcohol affects those areas of your brain that controls judgement and skill and is the one reason why drinking alcohol is so dangerous. A person’s judgement is the first thing affected after drinking alcohol

Question 9

What are penalties for refusing to take a test to determine whether you’re intoxicate?

Answer 9

Your license can be suspended due to refusing the test.

Question 10

What type of insurance must you have on motor vehicles with four or more wheels?

Answer 10

The Florida No-Fault Law

Question 11

If your drivers license is suspended for too many points, what type of insurance must you either purchase or prove that you had on the effective date of the suspension?

Answer 11

The No-Fault law

Question 12

What are the penalties for littering?

Answer 12

Throwing trash on public streets and highways can be fined up to $500 or jailed up for 60 days. You can be charged with a first-degree misdemeanor and fined up to $1,000 if dumping more than 15 pounds of trash.

Question 13

If you hit a parked car and are unable to find the owner, what should you do?

Answer 13

You must give the owner your name, address, and tag number in person or in a note attached to the object that was hit. Report the rash immediately to the proper law enforcement agency.

Question 14

When a crash results of property damages of any amount, must the driver notify the Florida Highway Patrol, the Sheriff’s Department, or the city Police Department?

Answer 14

If no report is written by an officer, you must make a written report of the crash to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles within 10 days.

Question 15

After a crash has been investigated by an officer, does the driver need to send a written report to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles?

Answer 15

No because the officer already made the report

Question 16

Who is required to wear seatbelt when riding in the front seat of a car or a pickup truck?

Answer 16

The driver and the front seat passenger must wear seat belts.

Question 17

Who could be charged with a violation if a fourteen-year-old front-seat passenger is not wearing a seatbelt?

Answer 17

A seat belt violation will be charged to the driver when a person under 18 is not restrained by a safety belt or a children restraint device.

Question 18

What is the maximum speed limit for passenger cars on a two-lane highway during the daytime?

Answer 18

55 m.p.h. under good conditions

Question 19

What is the maximum speed limit in a residential area if there is no speed limit sign?

Answer 19

30 m.p.h.

Question 20

What is the maximum speed limit on an interstate highway on a clear day? In a rural area?

Answer 20

70 miles per hour.

Question 21

When you are driving too slowly, can you be issued a ticket?

Answer 21

Yes you can be issued a ticket for driving too slowly because you should not drive so slowly that you block of the vehicles moving at normal safe speeds. When driving slower than the flow traffic keep right to other vehicles may safely.

Question 22

What must you do when approaching a person who is riding or leading a horse upon or near the roadway

Answer 22

Slow down and move away from the horse, Loud things startle them

Question 23

What must you do when you see a pedestrian with a white cane in the street ahead of you?

Answer 23

Drivers must always yield the right-of-way to persons who are blind. When they are crossing a street or a highway guided by a dog or carrying a white cane, vehicles must come to a complete stop.

Question 24

To what ages does the Child Restraint Law apply?

Answer 24

All children five years of age or younger must use a restraint device when riding in a motor vehicle.

Question 25

When you are entering a highway or street from a private driveway and the way is clear, can you move forward without stopping first?

Answer 25

Slow down and yield

Question 26

Are vehicles traveling in opposite direction of school buses that have stopped to unload children on a divided highway with a divided barrier required to stop?

Answer 26

Vehicles behind bus must stop. Vehicle traveling in opposite direction proceed with caution.

Question 27

When a school bus stops to unload children on a undivided highway, should the vehicles traveling the same direction as the bus stop?

Answer 27

Vehicles traveling in both directions must stop.

Question 28

If a school bus stops to unload children on a four-lane highway divided only by a four-foot paved strip, must vehicles traveling in the opposite direction stop?

Answer 28

Yes because it is paved

Question 29

For how many feet before you start to turn should you begin your turn signal when you are driving on a highway?

Answer 29

Give a turn signal for at least the last 100 feet before you make the turn.

Question 30

Suppose you are driving on a four-lane highway. From which lane should you turn? Into which lane should you turn?

Answer 30

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Question 31

What is the arm signal for a left turn?

Answer 31

The left arm is straight out.

Question 32

When may you drive in the left lane of a road with four or more lanes with two-way traffic

Answer 32

Only when overtaking and passing

Question 33

After passing a vehicle, you must return to the right side of the road before coming within how many feet of an oncoming vehicle?

Answer 33

You must return to the right side of the road before coming within 200 feet of any vehicle coming from the opposite direction.

Question 34

At what places is it unlawful to overtake and pass?

Answer 34

Where you see a DO NOT PASS or NO PASSING ZONE signs. Where a solid yellow line is painted on your side of the center line. On hills or curves, and at intersections. Within 100 feet of a bridge, viaduct, tunnel, or railroad crossing.

Question 35

Can a driver who crosses a solid line on the right of the center line of the highway be issued a ticket for the violation?

Answer 35

You can not pass where a solid yellow line is painted on your side of the center line. Violators may be arrested or issued a ticket.

Question 36

What is the recommended safe following distance?

Answer 36

Leave plenty of space between you and the vehicle ahead, including bicycles. If it stops quickly, you will need time to see the danger and stop.

Question 37

Which way should you turn your wheels went parking facing uphill where there is a curb? Which way should you turn them when there is not a curb?

Answer 37

Uphill with curbs- turn wheels from curb | Uphill without curb- turn wheels to right

Question 38

Can you park your car on a sidewalk, within an intersection, or on a crosswalk?

Answer 38

No, parking is not allowed on crosswalks, on sidewalks, and within intersections.

Question 39

May you drive with just your parking lights on, in the place of your headlights?

Answer 39

Driving with parking lights only in place of headlights is against the law.

Question 40

Are motorscooters with whose engines have less than 150 cubic centimeters displacements allowed to be driven on an expressway.

Answer 40

Pedestrians, hitchhikers, bicycles, animal-drawn vehicles or motor-driven cycles and motor scooters with 150 cubic centimeters displacement or less are not allowed on expressways.

Question 41

What should you do when if you drive past the exit on interstate highway where you wanted to get off?

Answer 41

Do not make last-minute turns into an exit. If you go past your exit, you must go to the next one.

Question 42

At what times should you use your headlights?

Answer 42

Use your headlights will be more highbeam between the hours of Sunset and sunrise.

Question 43

When approaching another vehicle from the rear at night, within how many feet must you dim your bright headlights?

Answer 43

If you're behind other vehicles, use low beams when you are within 300 feet of the vehicle ahead.

Question 44

Within how many feet of an oncoming vehicle should you dim your bright headlights?

Answer 44

Don't use highbeam headlights within 500 feet of oncoming vehicles.

Question 45

Under what conditions must you use your headlights when driving in the daytime?

Answer 45

You must use your low beam headlights during any rain, smoke, and fog.

Question 46

If you approach a red light and a traffic officer directs you to go through the intersection without stopping, what should you do?

Answer 46

If a law enforcement officer is directing traffic where there are signal light, obey the officer- not the signals.

Question 47

What does a green arrow showing at the same time as a red traffic light mean you can do?

Answer 47

You can turn in the direction of the arrow in the proper lane, You must yield the right-of-way to vehicles and pedestrian clearing the intersection

Question 48

After a full stop at a red light traffic may the driver turn right if the way is clear?

Answer 48

At most intersections after stopping, you may turn right on red if the ways clear. Some intersections display a "no turn on red" sign which you must obey.

Question 49

What does a red traffic light mean? What does a flashing red traffic light mean?

Answer 49

A red light means to come to a complete stop at the marked stop line or before moving into crosswalk or intersection. A flashing red light means the same thing as the stop sign. It is used as dangerous intersection

Question 50

Can you proceed with caution when you approach a flashing yellow light?

Answer 50

Yes It is used at, or just before, dangerous intersections, or to do to alert you to a new warning sign such as school crossing or shape curve.

Question 51

Where do you usually find "yield right-of-way" signs posted?

Answer 51

Yield signs are usually placed where auxiliary roads leading to major roads.

Question 52

If more than one vehicle is approaching a four-way stop sign and you are the first one to get there and stop, do you have the right to move forward first?

Answer 52

The first vehicle to reach the intersections and move forward first. If two vehicles reach the intersection at same time the driver on the left yields the driver on the right

Question 53

What does a solid yellow line to the right of the center of the highway mean?

Answer 53

Yellow lane lines separate lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions.

Question 54

What does a double solid yellow line in the center of the highway mean? What does a double solid white line in the center of the highway mean?

Answer 54

Double solid yellow line prohibit vehicles moving in either direction from crossing the lines. A double solid white line separates two lanes of traffic going in the same direction.

Question 55

What is a broken white line on the highway mean?

Answer 55

A broken white line separates two lanes traveling in the same direction.

Question 56

When the foot brake is pressed, which light must come on?

Answer 56

The two red tail lights mounted on the the rear.

Question 57

In addition to other equipment, is your vehicle required to have a white light that makes the license plate visible from 50 feet, a windshield wiper and a horn?

Answer 57

Yes they are required to be on a vehicle.

Question 58

What rights and duties do riders of bicycles and mopeds have?

Answer 58

A person riding bicycles or mopeds on roadways have the same rights and duties as motor vehicles, and maybe ticket for traffic violation.

Question 59

When can a motorist preparing to make a right hand turn, move into a bike lane?

Answer 59

Signal your intent to turn to other vehicles operators by pointing in the direction you are going to turn.

Question 60

What should a motorist do when they approach a bicyclist from the rear?

Answer 60

Give cyclists a minimum of 3 feet of clearance and reduce your speed.

Question 61

What should you do when preparing to turn right on a roadway with a bike lane?

Answer 61

Making a right turn, signal your turn, check for bicyclist, and do not turn directly in front of a bicyclist.

Question 62

What is the proper way to use anti-lock brakes in an emergency situation?

Answer 62

Drivers with ABS need to press down hard on the brake pedal, hold it and steer out of danger. In an emergency situation, the ABS automatically pumps the brakes at a faster rage than the driver could.

Question 63

What do antilock braking systems prevent when used in an emergency stopping situation?

Answer 63

Anti-lock brakes prevent skidding and allow drivers to steer during an emergency braking situation.

Question 64

If a trailer covers the stoplight of the towing vehicle, where else must a stoplight be?

Answer 64

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Question 65

Where should reflectors be mounted?

Answer 65

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Question 66

Give three examples of loads that need to be covered to avoid items, falling or blowing on the roadway?

Answer 66

- Dirt - Sand - Lime-rock - Gravel - Silica - Trash or Garbage

Question 67

How many feet to the rear should you be able to see objects through the rearview mirror?

Answer 67

The rear view mirror gives a view of the highway at least 200 feet to the rear.

Question 68

When one vehicle is towing another by means of a chain, what does a chain need to have displayed on it?

Answer 68

You must have a white flag at least 12 inches square attached to it.

Question 69

How long can the drawbar be between the towing vehicle and the vehicle being towed?

Answer 69

It must not be more than 15 feet long.

Question 70

Assume that a load extends 4 more feet beyond the bed or body of a vehicle driven on the highway in the daytime. How many flags must be used to mark it, and what color should they be?

Answer 70

Four red flags at least 12 inches must be placed on the projecting load where the red lights are used at night.