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Nevada 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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1. You are facing a red arrow. What are you allowed to do?
Correct answer: Wait without making the movement the arrow points to
A red arrow bars the movement it points toward. Unless another signal in the same head allows a different move, you must stop and wait.
2. Where must you bring your car to rest when facing a steady red light in Nevada?
Correct answer: Behind the stop line or crosswalk, or before entering the intersection if neither is marked
Halt short of the painted stop line or crosswalk. Where no marking exists, stop before any part of your car enters the intersection, and stay put until the light turns green.
3. How should you treat an intersection controlled by a flashing red light?
Correct answer: Exactly the same as a stop sign
Flashing red carries the meaning of a stop sign. Halt completely, then continue only when the roadway is clear and it is your turn to move.
4. What do yellow pavement lines separate?
Correct answer: Lanes flowing in opposite directions
Yellow always divides opposing streams of traffic. Whether the yellow line is dashed or solid then tells you whether crossing it to pass is permitted.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Highway Markings
5. What does a flashing yellow light at an intersection tell drivers?
Correct answer: You may keep moving, but be careful
A blinking yellow lets traffic continue without stopping, provided the driver slows as needed and watches for cross traffic or people crossing.
6. What is true about a green arrow signal?
Correct answer: It allows the arrow's movement, but you still let people on foot, bicycles and traffic already inside the intersection clear
A green arrow gives a protected turn from other traffic, yet anyone already lawfully in the intersection, on foot or on a bicycle, still goes first.
7. When may a Nevada driver turn right while the light is red?
Correct answer: After stopping fully, if no sign bans the turn and the way is clear
Unless a posted sign forbids it, a right turn on red is permitted once you have stopped completely, signaled, and confirmed that vehicles and people on foot are clear.
8. Two yellow lines run down the middle of the road and the one nearest you is solid. What may you do?
Correct answer: Stay in your lane without passing
When the yellow line on your side of the pair is unbroken, passing is prohibited for you, even if the opposite side happens to be dashed.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Highway Markings
9. A flashing yellow arrow is showing in your turn lane. What does it require?
Correct answer: Giving way to oncoming vehicles and people crossing, then turning when a safe gap appears
The blinking yellow arrow permits the turn but grants no protection. Oncoming traffic and pedestrians go first, and you finish the turn only when it is safe.
10. Broken white lines painted between lanes tell you what?
Correct answer: Lanes carry traffic the same way and you may change lanes or pass when it is safe
Dashed white marks separate lanes running in one direction. Stay inside the lane rather than straddling the line, and move over only when the way is clear.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Highway Markings
11. A solid white line divides two lanes carrying traffic in the same direction. What does it require?
Correct answer: Do not change lanes or pass across it
A solid white stripe between same-direction lanes discourages movement across it, so hold your lane. The same line also marks the outer edge of the pavement and the shoulder boundary.
Source: Nevada Driver's Handbook — Chapter 3, Highway Markings
12. The traffic lights at a Nevada intersection are completely dark because of a power failure. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop fully, then move ahead carefully after yielding to anyone already stopped or in the intersection
When the signal heads are not working, every approach becomes a required stop. Give way to pedestrians and to vehicles that arrived or stopped first, then ease through.
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