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Alaska 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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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.
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1. The signal ahead of you turns from green to yellow as you drive toward it in Alaska. What does the manual tell you to do?
Correct answer: Stop unless you are already in the intersection or too close to stop safely
A yellow ball warns that red is coming. Stop unless you are already inside the intersection or so near that halting would be unsafe; if it changes as you enter, carry on with great care.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
2. How do yellow and white pavement lines differ in Alaska?
Correct answer: Yellow separates opposing streams of traffic; white separates lanes going the same way
Yellow lines divide streams of traffic headed in opposite directions, while white lines separate lanes moving the same way.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Marking
3. What is a driver required to do at a flashing red ball in Alaska?
Correct answer: Stop, check all directions, and go only when it is safe
Treat it as a stop: halt behind the crosswalk or stop line, or short of the intersection if neither is there, scan every direction for traffic and people on foot, and move only when it is safe.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
4. The Alaska manual sorts pavement lines by whether they are dashed or solid. Which statement matches the manual?
Correct answer: Dashed lines permit, solid white restricts, and solid yellow prohibits
Dashed lines allow the movement, solid white lines restrict it, and solid yellow lines prohibit it. Markings on the pavement carry the same legal weight as signs and signals.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Marking
5. You have a green ball and want to turn left at an Alaska intersection. What must you do?
Correct answer: Yield to oncoming through traffic and to pedestrians crossing with the light
On a green ball you may make any legal movement, but you have to give way to oncoming vehicles going straight through, and to people on foot crossing with the light.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
6. A steady red ball faces you at an Alaska intersection. What may you do?
Correct answer: Turn right after stopping completely, if the turn is safe and no sign prohibits it
Halt behind the crosswalk or stop line, or short of the intersection where neither is marked. A right turn is allowed only after that full stop, only when it can be made safely, and only where no sign forbids turning on red.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
7. A steady red arrow is displayed for your direction in Alaska. What does it mean?
Correct answer: The movement is barred until the arrow turns green or flashing yellow
Do not make the movement the arrow shows. Stop behind the crosswalk or stop line, or before the intersection if neither is marked, and wait until the arrow turns green or flashing yellow.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Traffic Signals
8. How may a shared center left turn lane be used on an Alaska street?
Correct answer: Only by vehicles turning left from either direction
That center lane belongs exclusively to vehicles turning left from either direction. Using it to travel, to gather speed or to pass is not permitted.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Shared Center Lane
9. What does a steady red X above a reversible Alaska lane tell you?
Correct answer: The lane is closed to you and opposing traffic may use it
Stay out of that lane; oncoming vehicles have been given the use of it. Reversible lanes are often bordered by double yellow dashed lines, and you must never enter one when its signals are dark.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Lane Control Signals
10. What does a single solid yellow line along the left side of your lane indicate in Alaska?
Correct answer: The left edge of a divided roadway
That line marks the left-hand edge of a divided roadway. Yellow left edge lines appear on every divided or one-way roadway in the state.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Marking
11. A turn arrow is painted in the lane you occupy on an Alaska street. What does it require?
Correct answer: You must make the movement the arrow shows
A pavement arrow reserves that lane for the movement it pictures, and if your lane carries one you have to make that movement.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Marking
12. A steady yellow X is lit above the lane you are using in Alaska. What does it mean?
Correct answer: Leave the lane safely, because a red X is coming next
A red X is about to be displayed, so get out of that lane in a safe manner.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Lane Control Signals
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