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Alaska Car / Permit: Traffic Laws practice test
Speed limits, turning and signaling rules, headlight and seat-belt requirements, and the everyday laws every driver must follow.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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12 sample Traffic Laws 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. What does Alaska's distracted driving law say about screens and text messages?
Correct answer: Operating a visual screen device while driving is illegal, and texting is prohibited
Driving with a visual screen device in operation is illegal in Alaska, and sending text messages from behind the wheel is prohibited as well.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — TV, Laptops, Texting, Etc.
2. What does Alaska law say about coasting down a hill?
Correct answer: You may not coast with the gears in neutral or the clutch disengaged
Rolling down a grade with the transmission in neutral or the clutch held in is prohibited, because you lose the engine's help in controlling the vehicle.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Coasting Prohibited
3. What does Alaska say about using a center lane on a multi-lane two-way street?
Correct answer: It is set aside for slowing before a left turn and may not be used to pass
That lane exists so drivers can slow down before turning left. Using it to get around slower traffic is not allowed, and it may not serve as a driving or accelerating lane either.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Do Not Pass
4. You are on a two-lane Alaska road outside an urban area and five vehicles are stacked up behind you. What does the law require?
Correct answer: Pull over safely so the line of vehicles behind you can get by
Alaska statute puts a duty on you to yield to the drivers behind: when five or more vehicles are following, you must pull over safely at the first chance you get.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — What the Law Says About Following
5. How must an infant under one year old, or a child over one who weighs less than 20 pounds, ride in Alaska?
Correct answer: In a rear-facing child safety seat
Alaska law puts that child in a rear-facing safety seat that meets or exceeds federal transportation standards and is installed the way the maker directs.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Child Passenger Safety
6. Who must wear a safety belt under Alaska law?
Correct answer: Everyone riding in the vehicle
State law requires every occupant of a motor vehicle to be belted. The driver has to buckle up, passengers 18 and over can be cited themselves, and the driver answers for everyone younger than 16.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Safety Belt Use Is Required by Law
7. For what distance must an Alaska driver keep a turn signal running before turning?
Correct answer: The last 100 feet
A hand-and-arm or lamp signal has to run without interruption through the final 100 feet you cover before the turn, and the manual suggests starting even earlier when traffic or higher speeds warrant it.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Signaling
8. Another driver has pulled out to pass you on an Alaska highway. What does the law say you must not do?
Correct answer: Increase your speed while being passed
Picking up speed while someone is passing you is unlawful. Cooperation between the two drivers is what makes a pass safe.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Do Not Pass
9. Where does Alaska prohibit backing a vehicle unless an officer or flag person directs you to?
Correct answer: On a controlled-access highway and its entrance and exit ramps
Backing on a controlled-access highway, or on one of its entrance or exit ramps, is against the law unless police, fire or construction flag personnel tell you to do it.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Backing
10. An officer signals you to pull over on an Alaska road. What does the law require of you?
Correct answer: Stop as soon as it is practical and can be done in a reasonably safe manner
You have to stop as soon as it is practical to do so and in a reasonably safe manner once police signal you.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Stop by Law Enforcement
11. What does Alaska law require you to do once your turn is finished?
Correct answer: Cancel the directional signal
State law makes you switch the directional signal off after you use it. A signal left blinking still reads as an intention to turn and can lure another driver into your path.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — Signaling
12. How does Alaska law describe the distance you may keep behind another vehicle?
Correct answer: No closer than reasonable and prudent given speed, traffic and road conditions
The statute forbids following any closer than is reasonable and prudent, and it tells you to take account of your speed, the traffic around you and what the road surface is like.
Source: Alaska Driver Manual — What the Law Says About Following
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