US Permit Test — Road Signs: Guide, Work Zone, School & Railroad flashcards
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The rest of the sign test: green, blue and brown guide signs, route markers, orange work-zone signs and devices, school and railroad signs, plus the shape-and-color rules that let you read a sign before you can read its words. National designs per the MUTCD.
Practice deck · part of US driver's permit test — national core · written against: Signs per the FHWA MUTCD 11th Edition with Revision 1 (December 2025), whose figures for these signs are unchanged from December 2023; rules of the road common to every state handbook, cross-checked against the California (2025), Texas (January 2026) and Florida (08/2023) handbooks; figures that vary by state are left to the state folders. Updated 2026-10-10.
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What kind of information does a sign like this give?
A) Where roads lead and how far
B) A regulation that you must obey
C) A warning of a hazard just ahead
D) Services such as fuel and foodA) Where roads lead and how farGuide & Service Signs › Guide
Green guide signs give directions and distances to places along the route; rules appear on regulatory signs and warnings on yellow or orange ones. -
Which way does a two-digit Interstate with an even number, like this one, generally run?
A) North and south
B) East and west
C) In a loop around a city
D) Toward the nearest state capitalB) East and westGuide & Service Signs › Route Markers
Two-digit even numbers run east–west and odd ones north–south; three-digit numbers mark loops and spurs off a main route. -
In the work zone ahead, what is often different from the normal road?
A) Lanes may shift, and fines may be higher
B) Speed limits no longer apply in the zone
C) You may pass slower traffic on the shoulder
D) Headlights must be switched off for workersA) Lanes may shift, and fines may be higherWork Zone Signs
Orange signs mark temporary work zones; slow down, expect workers and equipment, and obey any lower limit posted. -
What does this sign mean?
A) A playground is beside the road
B) A pedestrian crossing, not a school
C) A quiet zone near a hospital
D) A school zone or school crossingD) A school zone or school crossingSchool Signs
Watch for children. Among warning signs the five-sided shape means school (the only other pentagon is the blue county route marker); children are unpredictable, so slow and scan the sidewalks. -
What does this sign mean?
A) You are at the railroad crossing itself
B) The road ahead is closed to traffic
C) A railroad crossing is ahead
D) A stop sign is ahead at the tracksC) A railroad crossing is aheadRailroad Signs
Slow down, look and listen: the round yellow sign is the advance warning, and the crossing itself is marked with a crossbuck. -
Only one sign has this shape. Which sign is it?
A) YIELD
B) STOP
C) DO NOT ENTER
D) WRONG WAYShapes & Colors
B) STOP
The octagon is reserved for STOP, so the sign can be recognized from behind or when snow covers its face.
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Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- Sign designs, names and meanings checked against the FHWA Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 11th Edition with Revision 1 (December 2025), a public-domain US government work; sign pictures drawn as vector art to the FHWA Standard Highway Signs and laid out after that manual's figures (the folder's media/, by tools/draw_signs.mjs; signs in the mutcd-ts 0.2.5 catalog of the 2024 Standard Highway Signs, MIT license, are drawn from it; media/sources.json gives each picture's source).
- Interstate route numbering checked against FHWA's Route Log and Finder List (fhwa.dot.gov, public domain).
- Meanings cross-checked against the sign chapters of the California Driver's Handbook (2025 online edition), the Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7, revised January 2026) and the Official Florida Driver License Handbook (rev. 08/2023); wording is original.
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