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West Virginia 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 red X glows above a traffic lane. What is it telling you?
Correct answer: That lane is closed or carrying opposing traffic
A red X marks a lane that is shut, or that is being run in the opposite direction, so you must not travel under it.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Lane Use Control Signals
2. What is a driver being told by a lit green arrow?
Correct answer: Proceed with the movement the arrow shows
The arrow permits the movement it points to, and where it appears in a left-turn signal it normally means the traffic facing you has been stopped.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Traffic Lights
3. A steady round yellow light means what in West Virginia?
Correct answer: The green is ending and red is about to appear
The yellow tells you the green period is finishing and red is next; you should only carry on through if your vehicle is already within the intersection.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Traffic Lights
4. A yellow X appears over the lane you are using. What should you do?
Correct answer: Leave that lane as soon as you safely can
The yellow X warns that the lane is about to shut or reverse direction, so the handbook tells drivers to move out of it as soon as they safely can.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Lane Use Control Signals
5. Traffic signals that are not needed or have broken down may be switched to flashing operation. What then?
Correct answer: They mean the same as intersection flashers
The handbook says that once signals are put into flashing mode they carry exactly the meaning of the flashers installed at intersections.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Intersection Flashers
6. How do line colors divide traffic on West Virginia roads?
Correct answer: White separates same-direction lanes and yellow separates opposing lanes
White lines are used between lanes running the same way, while yellow lines are reserved for separating streams of traffic traveling in opposite directions.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Pavement Markings
7. What does a green arrow pointing downward over a lane permit?
Correct answer: You may use the lane under the arrow
The downward arrow simply tells drivers that the lane beneath it is open for their use.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Lane Use Control Signals
8. A round red light at an intersection is flashing. How should you treat it?
Correct answer: As a stop sign, halting fully and yielding
A flashing red carries the same duty as a stop sign: come to a full halt and give way to every other vehicle and to people on foot.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Intersection Flashers
9. What does a flashing round yellow light tell through traffic?
Correct answer: Carry on through the intersection, but with caution
Drivers facing a flashing yellow may keep going but must do so carefully, since cross traffic is being held by a flashing red.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Intersection Flashers
10. A steady round green light is showing. What does West Virginia allow?
Correct answer: Straight ahead or either turn, though a left turn yields to oncoming traffic
A circular green lets you enter and continue straight, or turn either way, unless a sign or marking forbids it, but a left turn still gives way to traffic coming the other way.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Traffic Lights
11. Reversible lanes are outlined on both sides by broken double yellow lines. Why is that marking unusual?
Correct answer: It is the one case where you may drive any distance left of a yellow line
The handbook points out that this is the single arrangement in which a driver is allowed to travel any real distance on the left of a yellow line.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Pavement Markings
12. A yellow arrow replaces the green arrow in a turn signal. What is happening?
Correct answer: The green arrow is ending and red will follow
The handbook explains the yellow arrow the same way as the yellow ball: the protected arrow movement is finishing and red will follow.
Source: West Virginia Driver's Licensing Handbook — Chapter V, Traffic Lights
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