Texas Permit Practice Test 2
A second full-length Texas practice test: 30 fresh multiple-choice questions with zero repeats from Test 1. You need 70% correct to pass the real DPS Class C knowledge exam (also called the written exam).
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1. An ambulance with flashing lights and a siren comes up behind you on a two-way street. What should you do?
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Correct answer: C. When an emergency vehicle approaches with lights and siren, pull to the right edge of the road and stop, avoiding blocking intersections. A predictable move to the right opens a clear lane. Everyone right, everyone stopped, help gets through.
2. When does Texas law require you to turn on your headlights in the evening?
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Correct answer: D. Texas law requires headlights from 30 minutes after sunset until 30 minutes before sunrise, and whenever you cannot clearly see people or vehicles 1,000 feet ahead. Hook: half an hour on each side of the sun.
3. A teen walks into a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) office in Texas to apply for a first learner's permit. The office can accept the application once the teen is what age?
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Correct answer: B. The DPS accepts learner's permit applications at age 15 in Texas. Bring proof of identity, residency, and usually a parent's signature, then pass the knowledge and vision screenings. Age is simply the first box to check.
4. What is the difference between a suspended license and a revoked license?
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Correct answer: A. A suspension parks your driving privilege for a set time or until you meet conditions, while a revocation cancels it entirely, usually forcing you to reapply later. Think of suspension as paused and revocation as erased.
5. You are low on fuel on a long highway drive. Signs of which color point you to services such as gas, food, lodging, and hospitals?
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Correct answer: B. Blue signs mark motorist services, including fuel, food, lodging, rest areas, and hospitals. They let travelers plan a stop before leaving the highway. When your body or your car needs something, look for blue.
6. What happens when a car hydroplanes on a wet road?
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Correct answer: C. Hydroplaning happens when tires ride up on a layer of water instead of the pavement, erasing steering and braking grip. Higher speeds make it far more likely. Ease off the gas smoothly; think of tires turning into water skis.
7. A traffic light turns steady yellow as you approach the intersection. What does this signal tell you?
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Correct answer: A. A steady yellow light warns that the signal is about to turn red. Stop if you can do it safely; if you are too close to stop smoothly, continue through with caution. Yellow means prepare, not race.
8. You see a five-sided sign shaped like a schoolhouse outline, in fluorescent yellow-green, showing two walking figures. What does the pentagon shape identify?
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Correct answer: D. The pentagon shape is reserved for school signs, warning of a school zone or crossing where children may be walking. The fluorescent yellow-green color grabs attention near schools. Think of the five-sided shape as a little schoolhouse to remember it.
9. In Texas, a driver who is 21 or older commits a per-se drunk-driving offense once their blood alcohol concentration reaches which level?
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Correct answer: B. 'Per se' means the number alone proves the offense. In Texas, that number is 0.08%. No other proof of bad driving is needed at that level, and alcohol can still impair you below it.
10. BAC measures the percentage of alcohol in a person's blood. For drivers 21 and older in Texas, what BAC puts them at or over the legal limit?
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Correct answer: C. BAC stands for blood alcohol concentration. In Texas, adult drivers reach the illegal level at 0.08%. Remember the rule as a hard line: at 0.08% you are over, and skills like reaction time fade even sooner.
11. What is the safest way to carry young children in your vehicle?
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Correct answer: B. Children are safest buckled in the back seat, and a rear-facing seat must never sit in front of an active airbag, which can strike the seat with deadly force. Little riders belong behind you, away from the bag.
12. Your car stalls on railroad tracks and a train is coming. What should everyone in the car do?
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Correct answer: D. Abandon the car immediately and run toward the oncoming train at an angle leading away from the tracks, so flying wreckage sails past you instead of into you. Trains cannot stop quickly. Cars are replaceable; people are not.
13. Before you take the driving test for a Texas provisional license, how much supervised behind-the-wheel practice must you complete?
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Correct answer: B. Before the Texas driving test, teens must log 30 hours of behind-the-wheel practice with a licensed driver 21 or older, and at least 10 of those hours at night. Hook: thirty in total, ten after dark.
14. What does the term "no-zone" mean when you drive near a large truck?
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Correct answer: C. No-zones are the huge blind spots in front of, behind, and beside a large truck where the driver simply cannot see you. A quick test: if you cannot see the driver's face in the truck's mirror, you are invisible.
15. You must park on a hill where the road has no curb. Which way should you turn your wheels?
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Correct answer: A. With no curb to catch the car, always turn your wheels toward the road's edge, uphill or downhill. A runaway car then rolls off the travel lanes instead of into traffic. No curb: aim for the shoulder.
16. How does the law treat a driver who leaves the scene of a crash they were involved in?
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Correct answer: B. Fleeing a crash you were part of, often called hit and run, is a serious crime everywhere, with penalties that grow if anyone was hurt. Staying is a legal duty. Whatever the damage, driving away doubles the trouble.
17. You are parking facing uphill on a street with a curb. Which way should you turn your front wheels?
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Correct answer: B. When parking uphill with a curb, turn the wheels away from the curb and let the car roll back until a tire rests against it. The curb then works as a block. Up and away is the memory cue.
18. Your brake pedal sinks to the floor and the car barely slows. What should you do?
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Correct answer: A. Pump the pedal quickly to build pressure back, shift to a lower gear, and ease on the parking brake while steering toward safety. Work through the list calmly: pump, downshift, parking brake, and pick your escape path.
19. You are driving a passenger car on a U.S.-numbered highway outside an urban district in Texas. If no other limit is posted, what is the maximum speed allowed?
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Correct answer: D. On a U.S.- or Texas-numbered highway outside an urban district, the limit for passenger cars is 70 mph unless another limit is posted. Higher limits need state approval and studies. Hook: numbered road, open country, think seventy.
20. How does alcohol change the skills you rely on to drive?
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Correct answer: B. Alcohol slows your reactions, throws off coordination, and blurs and narrows vision, so every core driving skill suffers at once. Impairment starts before you feel drunk. Think of alcohol as turning down every dial you drive with.
21. Your younger sibling asks when they can get a learner's permit in Texas. What age do you tell them?
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Correct answer: A. Tell them 15; that is when Texas allows a learner's permit application. Until then, driving on public roads is off the table. Graduated licensing phases in privileges so new drivers gain experience under lower-risk conditions.
22. A pedestrian is crossing your half of the street in a crosswalk at an intersection without signals. What must you do?
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Correct answer: A. Drivers must yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk, and crosswalks legally exist at intersections even when no lines are painted. People on foot have no protection in a collision, so treat every corner as a possible crosswalk.
23. A 19-year-old is pulled over in Texas after a party. Under the zero-tolerance law, what BAC is enough for an underage drinking-and-driving violation?
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Correct answer: D. For drivers under 21 in Texas, a violation begins at any detectable amount. Zero-tolerance laws exist because young, inexperienced drivers face high crash risk with any alcohol. If you are underage, the only legal amount is none.
24. Unless a different limit is posted, what is the maximum speed you may drive in an alley in Texas?
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Correct answer: B. Unless a different limit is posted, Texas sets alley speed at 15 mph. Alleys are narrow, with hidden driveways and pedestrians stepping out between buildings. Hook: alleys are tight, fifteen is right.
25. You see a red-and-white triangular sign reading YIELD as you approach a traffic circle. What should you do?
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Correct answer: B. A yield sign tells you to slow down, check for traffic with the right-of-way, and stop only when necessary to let it pass. It keeps merges smooth without forcing pointless stops. Think of yield as give way, not always stop.
26. You are delivering food to a house on an unposted residential street in Texas. Unless a sign changes it, what speed limit applies?
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Correct answer: A. Unposted residential streets in Texas carry a default limit of 30 mph. The rule exists so drivers can stop for the unexpected, like a car backing out of a driveway. When a sign is posted, obey the sign instead.
27. You are driving in a lane with a large white arrow painted on the pavement curving to the right. What does this marking require?
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Correct answer: B. A curved lane-use arrow makes that lane turn-only: follow the arrow or change lanes before the intersection. The arrows sort traffic early so no one swerves at the last second. The pavement is telling you your path.
28. On a rural road at dusk you pass a yellow diamond sign showing a leaping deer. What is the proper response?
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Correct answer: A. A deer crossing sign marks a stretch where animals often enter the road, so slow down and watch the shoulders, particularly around dawn and dusk. Deer travel in groups, so one crossing usually means more are coming. Where there's one, expect another.
29. It is late at night and the unposted residential streets in your Texas neighborhood are empty. The legal maximum for these streets remains which speed?
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Correct answer: C. Empty or busy, day or night, the default limit on unposted residential streets in Texas stays 30 mph. Darkness actually cuts how far you can see and react, so conditions may call for less, never more, than the limit.
30. Setting cruise control on a rural Texas interstate posted at the state maximum, you should set it no higher than which speed?
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Correct answer: B. The state maximum in Texas is 85 mph, so cruise control should never be set above it where that limit is posted. Think of the posted limit as a ceiling for ideal conditions, never a required speed.
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