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New Jersey Motorcycle: Sharing the Road practice test
Driving safely around motorcycles, bicycles, large trucks, pedestrians, and school buses — and knowing who has the right of way.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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11 sample Sharing the Road 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. How should you enter an intersection on a motorcycle?
Correct answer: With a space cushion on each side for evasive action
Enter with a space cushion on either side so you have room for evasive action if needed.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — See, Be Seen, and Be Heard
2. What should a group of more than four or five riders do?
Correct answer: Divide into two or more smaller groups
Groups larger than four or five should split into two or more smaller groups to avoid disrupting traffic.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — Learning Group Riding
3. Under the Safe Passing Law, how much room must you leave a bicyclist on a single-lane road?
Correct answer: At least four feet
Passing a vulnerable road user where there is only one lane calls for a safety zone of four feet or more; where that much space is unavailable, the driver drops to 25 mph and waits for a safe opening.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Bicycles, Skateboards, and Inline Skates
4. Where do most crashes between cars and motorcycles happen?
Correct answer: At intersections
Most car-motorcycle crashes occur at intersections, where drivers often fail to see an approaching motorcycle.
5. How must you behave when you come up on a horseback rider or a horse-drawn vehicle?
Correct answer: Cut your speed to 25 mph or less and pass with care
Drivers have to cut their speed to no more than 25 mph and go by carefully, and must stop and stay put for as long as it takes the animal to pass if the person handling it signals for that.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Horseback Riders & Horse-Drawn Vehicles
6. If a vehicle pulls into your path from the right, which way should you move?
Correct answer: To the left, away from it
Put as much room as you can between you and the vehicle; when it is on your right, steer left.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — Keep the Proper Distance
7. When is it appropriate to use your horn?
Correct answer: To alert someone who may pull into your path
Sound the horn to catch the attention of a driver or pedestrian who might move into your path, but never depend on it by itself.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — See, Be Seen, and Be Heard
8. Where should inexperienced riders be placed in a group?
Correct answer: Just behind the leader where they can be watched
Put beginners just behind the leader so more experienced riders behind can watch them.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — Learning Group Riding
9. A bus has finished loading passengers and signals to rejoin traffic. What does state law require of you?
Correct answer: Yield to it unless you are driving an emergency vehicle
Every vehicle other than an emergency vehicle must give way to a bus pulling back into traffic after dropping off or collecting passengers, though that duty ends once the bus is rolling with the flow.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Yielding to School and Commercial Buses
10. After overtaking a tractor-trailer, when is it safe to pull back in front of it?
Correct answer: Once the truck's entire front appears in your mirror
Cutting in early drops you into the truck's forward blind spot, so hold your speed until the whole front of the truck shows in your rearview mirror.
Source: New Jersey Driver Manual — Trucks, Tractor-Trailers, and Buses
11. What are the two greatest dangers to motorcyclists in traffic?
Correct answer: Oncoming left-turning vehicles and cars pulling out of side streets
Two hazards top the list: a car coming the other way that turns left, and a vehicle nosing out from a side street.
Source: New Jersey Motorcycle Manual — See, Be Seen, and Be Heard
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