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Nebraska Motorcycle: Road Signs practice test
Learn the shapes, colors, and meanings of regulatory, warning, and guide signs — from stop and yield to construction and school-zone signs.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. What is the pennant-shaped sign on the left side of the road used for?
Correct answer: It marks the beginning of a no-passing zone
The yellow pennant marks the start of a zone where passing is not allowed, and it is posted on the left-hand side.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3B-5 Special Signs
2. What kind of message does a yellow roadway sign carry in Nebraska?
Correct answer: A warning about something unexpected ahead
Yellow marks warning signs, which exist to draw your attention to conditions ahead that you would not otherwise expect.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3B-1 Sign Colors
3. Which sign shape always means stop?
Correct answer: The octagon
The eight-sided octagon is used for nothing else. The three-sided triangle is likewise reserved for yield.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3B-2 Sign Shapes
4. What does an ADDED LANE warning sign ahead mean?
Correct answer: Traffic joins from another road but a lane has been added, so no merging is needed
Traffic from another road is about to join yours, but a lane has been added for it, so no merge is required of you.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3B-4 Warning Signs
5. What do a solid yellow line paired with a broken yellow line tell you about passing?
Correct answer: Only traffic on the broken-line side may pass
Passing is allowed from the side where the line is broken and prohibited from the side where it is solid.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3C-1 Yellow Center Line Markings
6. What does a red circle with a diagonal slash across a symbol mean?
Correct answer: The action shown is prohibited
It is the sign language for no: whatever the symbol shows is the thing you may not do there.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3B-3 Regulatory Signs
7. Where should a rider stop when a white stop line is painted across the pavement?
Correct answer: At the stop line
Stop at the line itself, not at the sign or signal — in towns the line usually sits about four feet back from the crosswalk.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3C-4 Other Pavement Markings
8. A number is posted beneath the crossbuck at a railroad crossing. What does it tell you?
Correct answer: The number of tracks at the crossing
It means the crossing carries more than one set of rails past that sign, so a second train can be hidden by the first.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3B-2 Sign Shapes
9. A sign with a yellow-green background is used for which kinds of warnings?
Correct answer: Pedestrians, bicycles, playgrounds and schools
That shade is reserved for warnings tied to people on foot and to children — pedestrians, bicycles, playgrounds, schools and school buses.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3B-1 Sign Colors
10. What does an orange sign tell you?
Correct answer: You are approaching road workers or a construction area
Orange is the color of road work: it alerts you to workers and to a construction area, and black lettering on orange is used only for work zones.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3B-1 Sign Colors
11. A five-sided pentagon sign marks what?
Correct answer: A school zone or school crosswalk
The pentagon is the school shape — it identifies school zones and warns of crosswalks used by school children.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3B-2 Sign Shapes
12. Which sign colors mark motorist services and which mark recreation or cultural sites?
Correct answer: Blue for services, brown for recreation
Blue points you to services such as rest areas and hospitals; brown marks recreation and places of cultural interest. Green carries guide information such as distance and direction.
Source: Nebraska Driver's Manual — 3B-1 Sign Colors
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