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Mississippi Permit Test: Road Signs Practice Questions
Shapes, colors and meanings of regulatory, warning and guide signs.
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Question 1
What does an orange sign generally indicate?
Construction or maintenance warning
Recreation area
Motorist services such as gas and food
Regulation
Correct answer: Construction or maintenance warning
Orange is for construction or maintenance warnings.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Standard Shapes and Colors
Question 2
What does a brown sign indicate?
Public recreation and scenic guidance
Hospital
Construction and road maintenance warnings
School zone
Correct answer: Public recreation and scenic guidance
Brown is used for public recreation and scenic guidance.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Standard Shapes and Colors
Question 3
What does a blue sign indicate?
No passing
General warning of a hazard
Construction
Motorist services guidance
Correct answer: Motorist services guidance
Blue signs give motorist services guidance.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Standard Shapes and Colors
Question 4
What does a pentagon (five-sided) sign warn of?
Hospital
A railroad crossing ahead
School zone or school crossing
No passing
Correct answer: School zone or school crossing
The pentagon is used for school crossing signs and warnings of school zones ahead.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Standard Shapes and Colors
Question 5
What does a pennant-shaped sign warn of?
A yield ahead
A no-passing zone ahead
A railroad
A school zone or school crossing
Correct answer: A no-passing zone ahead
The pennant shape warns of a no-passing zone ahead.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Standard Shapes and Colors
Question 6
What does a round sign warn of?
A stop sign is just ahead of you
A school crossing
A hospital
A railroad crossing ahead
Correct answer: A railroad crossing ahead
A round sign warns of a railroad crossing ahead.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Standard Shapes and Colors
Question 7
After stopping at a stop sign, what must you do?
Wait for a green light before moving
Yield to traffic close enough to be a hazard
Honk
Go immediately
Correct answer: Yield to traffic close enough to be a hazard
After stopping, you must yield to any traffic close enough to be a hazard.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Regulatory Signs
Question 8
You see a WRONG WAY sign facing you. What should you do?
Keep going carefully and use your flashers
Flash your lights
Leave the roadway and turn around as soon as possible
Speed up
Correct answer: Leave the roadway and turn around as soon as possible
WRONG WAY means you are driving against traffic and risk a head-on crash; leave and turn around ASAP.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Regulatory Signs
Question 9
What does a sign reading CROSS TRAFFIC DOES NOT STOP under a stop sign tell you?
Turns are prohibited
It's not a four-way stop
All traffic stops
You may roll through without stopping
Correct answer: It's not a four-way stop
This plaque means other traffic has the right of way and will not stop; it isn't a four-way stop.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Warning Signs
Question 10
What should you do in a Mississippi work zone?
Follow closely to save time
Pass the workers quickly to clear the zone
Keep your normal speed
Reduce speed and be ready to stop; don't tailgate
Correct answer: Reduce speed and be ready to stop; don't tailgate
Give workers a 'brake': reduce speed, be prepared to stop suddenly, and don't tailgate.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Work Zone Signs
Question 11
A temporary traffic signal controls a work zone. Where should you stop?
Past the signal
Anywhere
At the white line, if present
Right next to the workers on the side
Correct answer: At the white line, if present
Temporary signals may be used in work zones; stop at the white line if present.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Work Zone Signs
Question 12
The slow-moving vehicle emblem marks vehicles that travel at what speed?
35 mph or less
10 mph or less
25 mph or less
45 mph or less on highways
Correct answer: 25 mph or less
The emblem identifies vehicles that travel twenty-five miles per hour or less.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Slow-Moving Vehicles
Question 13
Passing a horse-drawn vehicle, what should you avoid?
Leaving extra space
Slowing down
Using the horn or revving the engine
Passing with caution after checking ahead
Correct answer: Using the horn or revving the engine
Don't use your horn or rev the engine; it may scare the horse and cause a crash.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Slow-Moving Vehicles
Question 14
Where may you park in a space marked HANDICAPPED PARKING ONLY?
Anywhere, for up to 10 minutes with flashers on
Only with an official handicap tag or hangtag
If the lot is full
At night only
Correct answer: Only with an official handicap tag or hangtag
Parking is only allowed for vehicles with an official indicator such as a handicap tag or temporary hangtag.
Source: Traffic Signs and Signals β Regulatory Signs
Question 15
How far before the tracks is the round yellow railroad advance sign usually posted in rural areas?
500 to 900 feet
50 to 100 feet
10 feet
One to two miles before them
Correct answer: 500 to 900 feet
In rural areas it's normally posted 500 to 900 feet before the tracks; look, listen and slow down.
Source: Railroad Crossings
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