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North Dakota 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. A power failure has left every signal head at an intersection dark. What does the manual require?
Correct answer: Stop and give way to any vehicle already in the intersection
With the signals unlit, a driver has to halt and give way to any vehicle that is already occupying the intersection before moving through.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Traffic Signals
2. Two solid yellow lines separate the halves of a two-lane road. What does that permit?
Correct answer: Crossing the lines only to complete a left turn
A double solid yellow bars overtaking for drivers going either way; crossing it is proper only as part of a left turn.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Pavement Markings
3. North Dakota permits a left turn against a red light in which situation?
Correct answer: From a one-way street onto another one-way street
A left on red is allowed when you are leaving a one-way street and entering another one-way street, unless signing at that spot forbids it.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Traffic Signals
4. A green arrow lights while the signal beside it still shows red. What does that allow?
Correct answer: Movement in the direction the arrow points, after letting the intersection clear
An illuminated green arrow lets you enter and make the movement it points to, but you still have to let pedestrians and vehicles already inside the intersection clear out first.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Traffic Signals
5. Your lane is bordered by the solid stripe of a solid-and-broken yellow pair. What does that mean for you?
Correct answer: Overtaking is barred, but you may cross to turn left
Where the solid stripe faces your lane, overtaking is barred; the only reason to cross that line is to complete a left turn.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Pavement Markings
6. A steady green arrow for your turn lane tells you what about oncoming vehicles?
Correct answer: The turn is protected and belongs to you
With a steady green arrow the turn is protected: drivers making that turn hold the right-of-way and do not have to yield through the movement.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Turn Indications
7. A signal that has been switched to a flashing red carries the same meaning as which sign?
Correct answer: A stop sign
Flashing red is treated exactly like a stop sign: halt, then move ahead once no pedestrians or vehicles are left in the way.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Flashing Indications
8. What does a flashing yellow indication at an intersection ask of you?
Correct answer: Keep going, but with caution
A flashing yellow does not require a halt; it tells drivers to keep moving through the intersection carefully and stay watchful.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Flashing Indications
9. What is a yellow signal indication telling a driver?
Correct answer: Green is ending and red is coming, so use caution
Yellow is a caution or warning color on a signal head; it announces that the green period is ending and red is next.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Traffic Signals
10. What does a flashing yellow arrow let a left-turning driver do?
Correct answer: Turn carefully after yielding to oncoming vehicles and pedestrians
The flashing yellow arrow permits a careful left turn once oncoming vehicles and people on foot have been let through; drivers coming the other way normally hold a green.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Turn Indications
11. You are waiting in a left-turn lane and a steady red arrow is displayed. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stay stopped until the indication changes
A steady red arrow tells left-turning drivers to remain stopped and wait; the turn is not permitted while that indication is showing.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Turn Indications
12. A broken yellow line runs down the middle of a two-lane, two-way road. What does it allow?
Correct answer: Crossing it to turn left or to overtake another vehicle
Broken yellow centerline marking may be crossed for two purposes only — completing a left turn, or overtaking another vehicle.
Source: North Dakota Noncommercial Driver License Manual — Pavement Markings
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