Colorado Permit Practice Test 6
25 questions written from the Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337), with an explanation and page citation for every answer.
A school bus is stopped ahead of you with its red lights flashing. What is the closest you may stop to the bus?
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About this test
These questions were written from the Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337) (DR 2337). 11 of the 20 Colorado questions in this test cover rules that are specific to Colorado or differ between states. Every answer comes with an explanation and a link to the exact page it comes from, so you can check it yourself.
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A school bus is stopped ahead of you with its red lights flashing. What is the closest you may stop to the bus?
- A 20 feet
- B 50 feet
- C 5 feet
- D 10 feet
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A. 20 feet
You must stop at least 20 feet before reaching a school bus stopped with red lights flashing, and stay stopped until they stop flashing. Children may cross in front of or behind the bus.
What colors are regulatory signs in Colorado?
- A Black or red on a white background
- B Black on a yellow background
- C White on a green background
- D Black on an orange background
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A. Black or red on a white background
Regulatory signs tell you the laws that apply at a location, and they are black or red on a white background. Disobeying them is a traffic violation.
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Under normal conditions, what following-distance rule does the Colorado handbook recommend?
- A The ten-second rule
- B The three-second rule
- C The two-car-length rule
- D The one-second rule
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B. The three-second rule
Under normal conditions, use the three-second rule. When the vehicle ahead passes a fixed point, count one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousand-three. If you reach the point first, you are too close.
You are using high beams on a dark road and a car approaches. Before it comes within what distance must you dim your lights?
- A 500 feet
- B 200 feet
- C 1,000 feet
- D 100 feet
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A. 500 feet
Dim your high beams, or low beams with fog lights, before coming within 500 feet of any oncoming vehicle, so its driver is not blinded by glare.
In Colorado, you may not park within how many feet of a stop sign or traffic signal?
- A 30 feet
- B 50 feet
- C 15 feet
- D 20 feet
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A. 30 feet
You may not park within 30 feet of a traffic signal, stop sign or railroad crossing. A parked car there would hide the sign or signal from approaching drivers.