WY Permit Practice Test 24

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1. 1. Who approves applications for Wyoming restricted licenses for extreme inconvenience?

   1. The local school district approves applications
   2. The county treasurer approves applications solely
   3. A parent or guardian approves applications alone
   4. The Wyoming Highway Patrol approves applications
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   The Wyoming Highway Patrol approves applications. Restricted license applications for extreme inconvenience go to the Wyoming Highway Patrol for approval. School districts, county treasurers, and parents alone do not grant the license, though family circumstances create the inconvenience claim. The license serves applicants 14 to 15 who held an instruction permit and live five or more miles from school or employment, valid only 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. within 50 miles of home.

   Study this in the handbook: Tests, renewals and restricted licenses

2. 2. Before changing lanes, what should a driver check over a shoulder for?

   1. Whether traffic behind is using high beams
   2. Whether the lane lines ahead are broken or solid
   3. Whether a vehicle is approaching from the front
   4. Whether anyone occupies the blind spots
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   Whether anyone occupies the blind spots. A shoulder check turns your head toward the area beside and behind the vehicle that mirrors cannot cover. Looking for high beam use behind you, reading lane lines ahead, or watching vehicles approaching from the front all direct attention somewhere else, so a motorcycle waiting beside the rear door can stay unseen. Glance over the shoulder on the side you plan to enter, confirm that space is empty, check for another driver aiming at the same lane, signal, and then move over smoothly.

   Study this in the handbook: School buses and required stops

3. 3. How is a bicycle defined and classified in Wyoming law?

   1. A human-powered vehicle classified as a pedestrian device
   2. A motor-assisted vehicle classified as a motorcycle
   3. A human-powered vehicle with two tandem wheels, classified as a vehicle
   4. A toy excluded from public road laws
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   A human-powered vehicle with two tandem wheels, classified as a vehicle. Wyoming defines a bicycle as a vehicle powered solely by human power with two tandem wheels, excluding scooters and similar devices. The law classifies bicycles as vehicles, and they may be ridden on all public roads in Wyoming. That classification gives bicyclists road rights and duties rather than treating them as pedestrians, motorcycles, or toys. Drivers should therefore expect bicycles in the roadway and share space with them as they would with other lawful road users.

4. 4. How should a driver treat bicycles when adjusting speed for traffic conditions?

   1. As slow-moving traffic and adjust to suit them
   2. As fast traffic that needs no speed change
   3. As obstacles to pass at the posted speed limit
   4. As traffic only when a bike lane is marked
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   As slow-moving traffic and adjust to suit them. Bicyclists hold as much legal right to a public roadway as other drivers, and they travel at slow-moving speeds. Identify them early as slow-moving traffic and adjust speed and driving to accommodate them. Adjust gradually, because slowing suddenly is a major cause of traffic crashes, and remember that passing many vehicles raises crash chances. A posted limit is a ceiling for clear conditions, not a promise that passing a rider at that pace is safe. No painted bike lane is needed before a bicyclist counts as traffic.

   Study this in the handbook: Speed limits and adjusting to conditions

5. 5. You are entering or leaving a public roadway. Who must you yield the right of way to?

   1. Drivers who are waiting to enter behind you
   2. Vehicle owners whose cars are parked at the curb
   3. Pedestrians who are using or crossing the roadway
   4. Parked vehicles that are facing the roadway
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   Pedestrians who are using or crossing the roadway. Pedestrian yield duties reach beyond marked crosswalks. Drivers must yield to pedestrians while driving through intersections, while changing lanes or passing, while turning through intersections, and while entering or leaving a public roadway. That last setting includes driveways and parking lot exits where people walk along the path a vehicle must cross. People standing beside your own vehicle and parked cars do not create the same crossing duty, and drivers queued behind you must wait for their own safe gap rather than receive yours.

6. 6. Driving beside a bicyclist in the same lane is legal in Wyoming. What is the safer choice?

   1. Safer not to drive beside the bicyclist
   2. Stay beside the rider to guard the lane
   3. Match the rider speed within the same lane
   4. Move beside the rider when the lane is wide
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   Safer not to drive beside the bicyclist. A bicyclist can swerve without much warning for a sewer grate, debris in the road, or a parked car door swinging open. Sharing a lane puts your vehicle where that swerve needs to go, so even though driving beside a rider is legal, you are safer if you do not do it. Leave plenty of room when following or passing, and remember riders hold rights to all public roadways. Lane width does not remove the swerve risk, and matching speed beside the rider stretches the time spent in that tight space.

   Study this in the handbook: Motorcycles, pedestrians, bicycles and animals

7. 7. How should a driver fight drowsiness on a long Interstate drive?

   1. Open windows and keep driving while sleepy
   2. Turn radio louder and continue the trip on
   3. Stop and take a break when drowsy
   4. Speed up to finish the trip sooner overall
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   Stop and take a break when drowsy. Drowsiness on the Interstate is answered by stopping for a break, and genuine sleepiness by pulling off, checking into a motel, and sleeping. Open windows, fresh air, singing, and eye movement are interim measures named for avoiding drowsiness, not permission to push through it, and speeding while sleepy compounds the impairment. Drowsiness ranks among the greatest driving dangers precisely because drivers overestimate those small countermeasures.

   Study this in the handbook: Following distance and heavy trucks

8. 8. With hot brakes in heavy traffic, how far may a heavy vehicle need from 55 mph?

   1. About 130 to 140 feet with hot brakes
   2. About 400 feet with hot brakes in traffic
   3. About 190 to 200 feet regardless of heat
   4. About 250 feet as a fixed maximum figure
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   About 400 feet with hot brakes in traffic. Hot brakes in heavy traffic can double a heavy vehicle's stopping distance to about 400 feet, one and a half football fields. The 130 to 140 foot figure belongs to passenger vehicles, 190 to 200 to a normally loaded trailer, and 250 appears nowhere in the progression. The escalation from car to loaded truck to hot braked truck explains why passenger drivers must never cut in closely ahead of heavy vehicles and brake abruptly.

   Study this in the handbook: School buses and required stops

9. 9. Which action does the Wyoming manual list as a way to communicate with other road users?

   1. Flash high beams at every intersection to announce a turn.
   2. Make eye contact where a right-of-way question may arise.
   3. Wait for another driver to guess the intended movement.
   4. Rev the engine before changing lanes to announce the move.
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   Make eye contact where a right-of-way question may arise.. The manual lists making eye contact with pedestrians and other drivers at intersections or other places where right of way may be unclear. Eye contact can help people recognize one another before a movement is made. Flashing high beams at every intersection, waiting for guesses, or revving the engine are not the listed communication method. The handbook also names hand motions, lane position, timely signals, brake lights, correct lane placement, and a horn as ways to communicate intentions early.

10. 10. What do rectangular traffic signs generally tell drivers?

    1. They provide regulatory information about lawful speeds and directions.
    2. They warn about hazards and unusual conditions ahead.
    3. They warn drivers that a railroad crossing is ahead.
    4. They mark school zones and school crossings.
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    They provide regulatory information about lawful speeds and directions.. Rectangular signs generally provide regulatory information about lawful speeds and directions. A driver should read that information as a traffic rule or required movement. Hazard warnings belong to diamond-shaped signs, the advance warning for a railroad crossing uses a round sign, and a five-sided sign identifies a school zone or school crossing. These categories are separated by sign shape, so a rectangle should prompt the driver to look for a speed, direction, or other regulatory instruction.

11. 11. Which full-time students may not need a Wyoming driver license?

    1. Part-time students licensed in another state only
    2. Full-time Wyoming college students licensed elsewhere
    3. Students attending school outside Wyoming borders
    4. Any student with a school identification card held
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    Full-time Wyoming college students licensed elsewhere. Full time students at the University of Wyoming or a Wyoming community college holding a valid license from another state are among those who need not obtain a Wyoming license. Part time attendance, schooling outside the state, or a student ID alone stretches the exemption past its terms. The same list covers federal employees driving government vehicles, armed forces members and dependents licensed at home, and Driver License Compact members who surrender within a year of residency.

12. 12. What suspension results when a driver under 21 drives while the license is suspended, revoked, or canceled?

    1. A 30-day suspension
    2. A 60-day suspension
    3. A 90-day suspension
    4. A one-year suspension
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    A 30-day suspension. Driving while a license is suspended, revoked, or canceled results in a 30-day suspension of driving privileges when the driver is under 21. The manual does not use 60 days, 90 days, or one year for this particular age-based sanction. Read the driver's age and the existing license action together, because other sections assign different periods to DWUI, moving violations, and restricted-license offenses. This rule addresses the additional consequence of driving during a suspension, revocation, or cancellation.

    Study this in the handbook: Suspensions, revocations and reinstatement

13. 13. You are inside a roundabout and reach your exit. How should you leave it?

    1. Stop inside the circle and wait for pedestrians
    2. Signal that you are leaving and yield to pedestrians
    3. Leave without signaling if traffic is light
    4. Speed up so entering traffic cannot merge in
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    Signal that you are leaving and yield to pedestrians. Roundabout driving is a sequence: slow down, yield to pedestrians and traffic already circulating, wait for a gap on the left, and merge. Once inside, keep moving rather than stopping in the circle. At your exit, signal that you are leaving and yield to pedestrians as you leave. Pedestrians cross only in crosswalks, so scan the exit crosswalk before accelerating onto the next street. Light traffic does not remove the signal, and speeding toward the exit makes the pedestrian check harder.

    Study this in the handbook: Right of way rules

14. 14. Where must a vehicle stop at stop signs and red traffic lights?

    1. Before the crosswalk at those controls
    2. Inside the crosswalk if no pedestrian waits
    3. Past the crosswalk when traffic is light
    4. At the curb line extended past the crosswalk
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    Before the crosswalk at those controls. Stop signs, red traffic lights, and flashing red lights all require stopping before the crosswalk. Rolling into the crosswalk on an empty corner, stopping past it in light traffic, or using an extended curb line as the stop point places the bumper where pedestrians step. The same required stop list covers entering a street from a driveway, alley, building, or parking lot, plus directions from a police officer that outweigh lights and signs.

    Study this in the handbook: School buses and required stops

15. 15. On a one-lane-each-direction road near a stopped emergency vehicle, what speed change is required?

    1. Reduce speed to at least 5 mph below limit
    2. Maintain the limit while moving to shoulder edge
    3. Reduce speed by half regardless of posted limit
    4. Reduce speed to at least 20 mph below the limit
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    Reduce speed to at least 20 mph below the limit. With only one lane in each direction, no farther lane exists, so speed drops to at least 20 mph below the posted limit beside a parked emergency vehicle. A token 5 mph trim understates the required margin, holding the limit near the shoulder edge ignores it, and halving speed substitutes a snow driving figure. Ease down early, watch for personnel outside the vehicle, and restore speed only after clearing the scene completely.

    Study this in the handbook: Right of way rules

16. 16. A driver parks facing uphill where a curb is present. How should the front wheels be turned?

    1. Turn the wheels toward the uphill slope
    2. Turn the wheels toward the curb
    3. Keep the wheels pointed straight ahead
    4. Turn the wheels away from the curb
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    Turn the wheels away from the curb. With a curb beside an uphill parking position, turn the front wheels away from the curb after setting the parking brake. If the vehicle rolls backward, that angle helps the curb stop it rather than sending it toward moving traffic. Turning toward the curb, leaving the wheels straight, or aiming them toward the uphill slope does not follow the manual's uphill-with-curb instruction. The curb is the important condition here. Without a curb, the wheel direction changes, so do not apply this answer to every hill parking situation.

17. 17. What should be scanned for ahead while driving in fog?

    1. Taillights, headlights, pedestrians, stopped vehicles ahead
    2. Only the lane markings directly below the vehicle
    3. Aircraft lights above the roadway at night hours
    4. Reflections in the rearview mirror behind traffic
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    Taillights, headlights, pedestrians, stopped vehicles ahead. Fog scanning targets taillights, headlights, pedestrians, and stopped or slow moving vehicles ahead, inside the biggest space cushion possible. Lane paint below the bumper, aircraft lights, or rearview reflections look everywhere except the shrinking sight distance ahead. Low beams, restrained speed matched to traffic within 15 mph, and pulling off when less than 10 seconds is visible complete the fog routine that keeps a driver from outrunning their own eyes.

    Study this in the handbook: Night, weather and winter driving

18. 18. To avoid carbon monoxide poisoning, where must you never start a vehicle or warm up its engine?

    1. In an open driveway outside the home
    2. In an outdoor lot with fresh air moving
    3. On a rural road shoulder during a stop
    4. In a closed garage while warming the engine
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    In a closed garage while warming the engine. Carbon monoxide is colorless, odorless, and poisonous, and an engine running in a closed garage lets it build up where nobody can smell a warning. Weariness, yawning, dizziness, nausea, headache, and ringing in the ears are signs to stop the engine and open windows for fresh air. Have the exhaust system checked regularly for leaks, avoid parking for long periods with the engine running, and keep cold starts outdoors. A short warm up is still engine running time, so the closed garage stays off limits.

    Study this in the handbook: When a crash seems imminent, and vehicle failures

19. 19. Why should a driver not move alongside a motorcycle in the same lane?

    1. It is allowed if the lane feels wide enough
    2. It boxes both in and is illegal to do
    3. Motorcycles must yield their lane space then there
    4. It helps the motorcycle driver see traffic better
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    It boxes both in and is illegal to do. Sharing a lane alongside a motorcycle is illegal and boxes both vehicles in without an escape path, however wide the lane feels. Lane width does not legalize it, the motorcycle owes no surrender of its full lane width, and crowding does not improve the rider's view. Skilled riders shift within the lane to see, be seen, and dodge road objects, so a car alongside removes exactly the maneuvering room that keeps the rider upright.

    Study this in the handbook: Motorcycles, pedestrians, bicycles and animals

20. 20. At a BAC of 0.08 percent, how are people described in the manual?

    1. Unaffected unless outward signs are visible then
    2. Impaired only in physical coordination aspects
    3. Impaired mentally and physically whether shown or not
    4. At the legal threshold with no impairment implied
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    Impaired mentally and physically whether shown or not. At 0.08 percent, considered high, people are impaired mentally and physically whether or not they show it. Waiting for outward signs, limiting impairment to coordination, or treating the legal line as impairment free all contradict the description. As BAC rises, the ability to judge and make accurate decisions in traffic becomes more and more impaired regardless of appearances, which is why covered up drunkenness still multiplies crash risk.

    Study this in the handbook: How alcohol affects you, and implied consent