FL Permit Practice Test 21

All 20 questions in test 21

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1. 1. What should you do when a hill/downgrade sign warns of a downhill road?

   1. Speed up to climb faster
   2. Shift to neutral to coast
   3. Slow down and shift lower to control speed
   4. Turn off the engine downhill
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   Slow down and shift lower to control speed. A hill or downgrade sign warns that the road drops ahead, and Florida's response is to slow down and be ready to shift to a lower gear to control speed. Engine braking in a low gear holds the descent steady without overheating the service brakes, which can fade on long grades. Speeding up compounds the grade's pull, neutral coasting surrenders engine braking and is illegal in many contexts, and killing the engine kills power steering and braking assist. Descend slowly, in gear, and in control.

2. 2. Unless posted otherwise, what is Florida's standard speed limit in school zones?

   1. 15 MPH
   2. 20 MPH
   3. 25 MPH
   4. 30 MPH
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   20 MPH. Florida publishes a short table of standard speed limits that apply unless a sign posts something else. School zones sit at the bottom of that table at 20 MPH, below the 30 MPH limit for municipal, business, and residential areas. The reduced limit protects children during arrival and dismissal times when crossing guards and flashing signals are active. Drivers must watch for the posted school-zone signs and signals, because the 20 MPH limit applies during the indicated times. Exceeding it risks a doubled fine.

3. 3. How do you return after dropping wheels off the pavement?

   1. Jerk back onto the road
   2. Hold straight, brake lightly, re-enter slow with a signal
   3. Slam the brakes on the shoulder
   4. Speed up on the shoulder
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   Hold straight, brake lightly, re-enter slow with a signal. Shoulder drops recover in stages: hold the wheel firmly and steer straight, brake lightly, wait for a clear road, then turn back onto the pavement at a slow speed while signaling. Jerking back up the pavement edge trips rollovers, shoulder braking in gravel or grass slides unpredictably, and shoulder speeding wastes the stability you need. The pavement edge is a small cliff; rejoin it at an angle and a pace the tires can climb without grabbing.

4. 4. How many hours of DUI school follow a second DUI conviction?

   1. 21 hours
   2. 12 hours
   3. 4 hours
   4. 40 hours
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   21 hours. Repeat offenders sit longer in DUI school: twenty-one hours for the second conviction, up from twelve for the first, with the third conviction repeating twenty-one. The added classroom time covers deeper intervention for drivers whose first course failed to deter. Twelve hours belongs to the first offense, four and forty match no tier. School runs alongside the evaluation for addiction treatment, the longer jail exposure, the 180-day revocation minimum, and the year-long ignition interlock.

5. 5. What does fully engaged driving require?

   1. One hand on the phone
   2. Eyes on passengers
   3. Mind on dinner
   4. Hands on wheel, eyes on road, mind on driving
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   Hands on wheel, eyes on road, mind on driving. Safe driving demands the full human: hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, and mind on driving, fully engaged. Phone hands, passenger eyes, and dinner minds each evict one of the three pillars and invite the crash that full engagement prevents. Anything affecting physical or mental condition, from illness to emotion to medication, degrades the engagement. Check health regularly, treat sickness off the road, and ask about every prescription's driving effects.

6. 6. How closely may you follow a responding fire truck?

   1. 100 feet
   2. 200 feet
   3. 300 feet
   4. 500 feet
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   500 feet. Fire trucks answering alarms own a half-thousand-foot bubble: following one responding to an emergency closer than five hundred feet breaks the law. The buffer keeps civilian cars out of the truck's spray, hose lays, and sudden stops at the scene. One, two, and three hundred feet each crowd the crew's working room and risk a citation on top of the danger. Hang back, watch for dismounting firefighters and stretching hoses, and never pass a working engine on the scene side.

7. 7. What does fluorescent yellow-green warn about?

   1. Construction zones
   2. School, pedestrian, and bicycling activity
   3. Stop signs
   4. Guide information
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   School, pedestrian, and bicycling activity. Fluorescent yellow-green shouts for the vulnerable: the high-emphasis color warns of school, pedestrian, and bicycling activity where extra attention saves lives. Construction orange, stop-sign red, and guide green each serve their own masters. Crosswalk, school-zone, and bike-warning signs glow in this color precisely because children and walkers need drivers braking early. Treat every fluorescent panel as a slow-down-and-scan order. Brake early and expect stopped traffic wherever children gather.

8. 8. What does Florida say about driving through a red light?

   1. Illegal and extremely dangerous
   2. Legal if no one is coming
   3. Legal at night
   4. A minor courtesy issue
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   Illegal and extremely dangerous. Running a red light is condemned twice in one line: against the law and extremely dangerous. Empty-looking intersections, nighttime hours, and courtesy framings change neither the statute nor the physics of crossing traffic at speed. Red-light running causes some of the deadliest urban crashes because the victims cross with a green they trusted. Stop at the line, wait for green, and make only the permitted turns after stopping and yielding.

9. 9. During the day, how must a Florida driver mark a load that extends more than four feet beyond the rear of the vehicle?

   1. With a white cloth of any size
   2. With hazard flashers only
   3. With red flags at least 18 inches square
   4. With an orange triangle sign
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   With red flags at least 18 inches square. A load that sticks out beyond the sides of a vehicle, or four feet or more beyond its rear, must be clearly marked. During the day, Florida requires red flags at least 18 inches square at the extremities of the load. From sunset to sunrise, and in rain, smoke or fog, red lamps and reflectors visible from hundreds of feet are required instead. A white cloth is not the required marking, hazard flashers alone do not outline the load, and the orange triangle is the slow moving vehicle emblem.

10. 10. How many multiple-choice questions are on Florida's Class E Knowledge Exam?

    1. 30
    2. 40
    3. 60
    4. 50
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    50. Florida's Class E Knowledge Exam consists of 50 multiple-choice questions. The 40 and 30 choices do not match the number of questions the handbook gives. Sixty is also not the handbook number. Read the wording carefully: this item asks how many questions are presented, not how many correct answers are required or what percentage constitutes a pass. The handbook organizes those 50 questions around traffic laws, safe driving practices, and traffic controls.

11. 11. What does a steady yellow traffic light mean in Florida?

    1. The intersection is closed permanently
    2. The light is changing to red, so stop if you can safely do so
    3. Cross traffic must stop and you have priority
    4. You may always speed through before red
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    The light is changing to red, so stop if you can safely do so. A steady yellow light warns that the signal is changing to red. Florida advises stopping if it can be done safely, because being in the intersection when the light turns red is extremely dangerous. Yellow is not permission to accelerate, and it does not establish permanent closure or priority over cross traffic. Check your stopping distance and brake smoothly rather than trying to beat the signal.

12. 12. What catch-all parking ban covers unusual hazards?

    1. Marked spaces
    2. Rest areas
    3. Shoulders in emergencies
    4. Anywhere blocking or hazarding others
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    Anywhere blocking or hazarding others. Beyond the named bans, Florida outlaws parking anywhere that blocks or creates a hazard for other vehicles. The catch-all covers the creative violations no list can name: blind curves, narrow passages, blocked sight lines, and doors pinned shut. Marked spaces, rest areas, and emergency shoulder use are the lawful counterparts that keep traffic flowing. Before leaving a car anywhere unusual, the test is simple: can every other road user still pass and see safely? If not, move on.

13. 13. What minimum insurance must every Florida vehicle owner carry?

    1. $25,000 in bodily injury liability only
    2. $10,000 in PIP and $20,000 in PDL
    3. $10,000 in PIP and $10,000 in PDL
    4. $100,000 in bodily injury liability and $50,000 in PDL
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    $10,000 in PIP and $10,000 in PDL. Florida requires at least $10,000 in Personal Injury Protection and at least $10,000 in Property Damage Liability, shown at registration and kept in force throughout the registration period. Bodily injury liability alone is not the basic requirement. Twenty thousand in PDL is not the minimum. The $100,000 bodily injury and $50,000 PDL figures are the higher limits required after a DUI conviction, not the everyday minimum. PIP covers your own injuries no matter who caused the crash.

14. 14. What must you do when a vehicle ahead stops at a crosswalk?

    1. Never pass there; a pedestrian may be crossing
    2. Pass quickly on the shoulder
    3. Honk and pass on the left
    4. Pass if the car waits long
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    Never pass there; a pedestrian may be crossing. A car stopped at a crosswalk is a warning, not an obstacle: never pass it, because a pedestrian may be crossing hidden behind it. The handbook bans passing at crosswalks where a vehicle has stopped to let someone cross, and separately forbids overtaking any vehicle stopped at a crosswalk. Shoulder passes, honking flybys, and impatience passes all risk striking the person the stopped driver is protecting. Stop behind, wait for the pedestrian to clear, and proceed only when the crosswalk and the stopped car both release you.

15. 15. What should you do when another vehicle passes you?

    1. Speed up to block them
    2. Drift left to help
    3. Hold speed and move right in your lane
    4. Brake hard to punish them
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    Hold speed and move right in your lane. Being passed calls for cooperation, not competition: do not increase your speed, and move to the right side of your lane to give the passer room and a better view ahead. Speeding up turns the pass into a race, drifting left squeezes the passer toward oncoming traffic, and brake-checking invites a rear-end collision. Florida adds a lane-discipline backstop: drivers being overtaken from behind by a faster vehicle must move out of the left lane. Ease off, hold right, and let the pass finish quickly.

16. 16. How should you treat a bicyclist at an intersection?

    1. Assume they go straight and yield as to any vehicle
    2. Assume they always turn
    3. Ignore them until they signal
    4. Pass them inside the intersection
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    Assume they go straight and yield as to any vehicle. At intersections, read the cyclist as through traffic: assume bicyclists are traveling straight unless they signal otherwise, and yield to bicycles as you would to any other vehicle. Assuming a turn invites a right-hook collision across their path, ignoring them denies their vehicle status, and passing inside the intersection crowds them where they are most exposed. Hold behind, yield the lane, and make your own turn behind the cyclist after they clear.

17. 17. What should an impaired driver without a designated driver do?

    1. Rideshare, sober friend or family, or transit
    2. Drive slowly home
    3. Sleep in the driver's seat and drive
    4. Follow another car closely
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    Rideshare, sober friend or family, or transit. No designated driver is no excuse: impaired drivers without one should use a rideshare service, call a sober friend or family member, or take public transportation home. Slow driving, seat-naps followed by driving, and convoy following all keep an impaired driver in control of a car, which is precisely the prohibited act. The backup plan costs a fare or a favor against a DUI's thousands in fines, jail, revocation, school, and interlock. Plan the ride before the first drink whenever possible.

18. 18. Who must wear safety belts in Florida?

    1. Drivers only
    2. All drivers, front passengers, and under-18s
    3. Adults only
    4. Back-seat adults only
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    All drivers, front passengers, and under-18s. Florida's belt law covers the front and the young: all drivers, all front seat passengers, and every passenger under eighteen must wear safety belts. Drivers-only, adults-only, and back-adults-only readings each drop protected groups the statute names. Children under four ride in safety seats, with ages four and five in seats or boosters. Drivers answer for unrestrained under-eighteen passengers, while adults eighteen and over answer for themselves.

19. 19. What does the sharp right turn warning sign indicate?

    
    1. The road will make a sharp turn to the right; slow down and do not pass
    2. The roadway will curve gently left with passing encouraged
    3. A one-way street begins at the next block
    4. A right turn is prohibited at the upcoming intersection
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    The road will make a sharp turn to the right; slow down and do not pass. The right-angle arrow signals a sharper change in direction than an ordinary curve warning. The manual tells drivers to slow down and avoid passing other vehicles, which protects control and sight distance around the turn. The gentle-left choice changes both direction and severity. Nothing in this symbol announces one-way travel or bans a turn at an intersection. Read the arrow as a road alignment warning, then lower speed before the turn rather than braking late while steering through it.

20. 20. On which Florida streets may a low-speed vehicle (LSV) be operated?

    1. Any street, including limited access highways
    2. Only private roads and parking lots
    3. Streets with a posted speed limit of 35 MPH or less
    4. Streets posted at 45 MPH or less
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    Streets with a posted speed limit of 35 MPH or less. Low-speed vehicles are four-wheeled vehicles with top speeds of 21 to 25 MPH, and golf carts can be converted into them. The driver needs a valid driver license, and the LSV may only be operated on streets with a posted speed limit of 35 MPH or less. It must also be registered, insured and equipped with lights, mirrors, a windshield, safety belts and a vehicle identification number. Highways with faster traffic, including 45 MPH roads, are off limits, while LSVs are not confined to private property.