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Delaware Car / Permit: Right-of-Way practice test
Who goes first at intersections, four-way stops, roundabouts, and crosswalks, and how to yield to pedestrians and emergency vehicles.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. What is required of a driver crossing a sidewalk on the way out of a parking lot?
Correct answer: Give way to people on foot, since a sidewalk may lawfully be driven on only to cross it
Delaware makes drivers who cross a sidewalk while entering or leaving a driveway, alley or lot yield to pedestrians, and driving along a sidewalk is otherwise illegal.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Right-Of-Way
2. How does Delaware law treat the idea of having the right of way?
Correct answer: Nobody is granted it; the statutes only say who has to yield
The manual points out that the law describes who must give way rather than awarding anyone a right, and that yielding to head off a crash is always the correct choice.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Right-Of-Way
3. Two vehicles reach an intersection with no signs or signals at the same instant. Who gives way?
Correct answer: The driver on the left yields to the vehicle approaching from the right
Where no control device is present, drivers should give way to traffic coming from their right, although the safest habit is to consider yielding to everyone before entering.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Right-Of-Way
4. As you reach the entry to a Delaware roundabout, who has priority?
Correct answer: The traffic already circulating inside it
Approach on the right of the splitter island, slow to roughly ten to fifteen miles per hour, watch for cyclists merging and for people in the crosswalk, and give way to vehicles already going around.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — How to Use a Roundabout
5. Traffic beyond the intersection ahead is backed up, but your light is green. What should you do?
Correct answer: Wait behind the intersection until there is room to clear it completely
A driver may not enter an intersection without being able to get through it without stopping, and someone caught blocking one can be ticketed for it.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Right-Of-Way
6. A school bus on a two-lane road stops with red lights flashing while you approach from the other direction. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop and stay stopped until the red lights go dark and the stop arm folds away
Delaware requires a stop from either direction unless the highway carries four or more lanes, and even then approaching drivers should go slowly. Wait for the lights and the arm before moving.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Stopping For School Buses
7. At a four-way stop, which vehicle goes first when two arrive at exactly the same moment?
Correct answer: The one on the right
Whoever reaches the intersection first goes first, once they have stopped completely. When arrivals coincide, the vehicle to the right takes its turn ahead of the other.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Right-Of-Way
8. You are pulling out of a shopping center driveway onto a main road. Who has to yield?
Correct answer: You do, to the traffic already moving along the main road
A driver coming out of a driveway, an alley or the roadside must wait for vehicles already on the road, stopping if that is what it takes. The same applies when leaving a turn-only lane.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Right-Of-Way
9. A pedestrian carrying a white cane steps off the curb ahead of you. What does Delaware require?
Correct answer: Give them absolute priority and keep off the horn
Pedestrians using a guide dog or a white cane hold an absolute right of way. The manual warns that sounding the horn may confuse or frighten them.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Right-Of-Way
10. The vehicle in the lane beside you has stopped to let somebody cross the road. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop as well, because overtaking a vehicle stopped for a pedestrian is prohibited
Delaware bars drivers from passing a vehicle that has halted to allow someone to cross the highway, because the stopped vehicle hides that person from view.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Pedestrians
11. Somebody is walking across the road inside a crosswalk ahead of you. What is required?
Correct answer: Yield to them, coming to a stop if that is what it takes
Delaware requires drivers to yield to any pedestrian within a crosswalk and adds that a horn is no substitute for giving way. Not every crosswalk is painted, so stay alert at intersections.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Pedestrians
12. You are waiting to turn left while traffic comes toward you. What must you do?
Correct answer: Let the approaching vehicles that are continuing straight through go by first
Delaware requires a driver turning left to give way to oncoming vehicles that are heading straight ahead.
Source: Delaware Driver Manual — Right-Of-Way
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