Virginia Permit Practice Test 2
25 questions written from the Virginia Driver's Manual (DMV 39), with an explanation and page citation for every answer.
An adult driver collects 18 demerit points within 12 months. What will Virginia DMV do?
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About this test
These questions were written from the Virginia Driver's Manual (DMV 39) (April 2026). 11 of the 20 Virginia questions in this test cover rules that are specific to Virginia 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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An adult driver collects 18 demerit points within 12 months. What will Virginia DMV do?
- A A 90-day suspension plus a driver improvement clinic
- B Suspend the license for 30 days with no clinic
- C Send a warning letter but take no other action at all
- D Revoke the license for one year with no clinic
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A. A 90-day suspension plus a driver improvement clinic
If you receive 18 demerit points within 12 months, or 24 within 24 months, DMV suspends your driving privilege for 90 days and requires a driver improvement clinic. Points add up from convictions, so a string of small violations can cost you your license.
At a four-way stop, you arrive and stop first. A moment later a car stops on the cross street to your right. Who goes first?
- A Whichever vehicle is larger
- B You, because you arrived first
- C Whichever driver is going straight
- D The car on your right, always
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B. You, because you arrived first
When vehicles reach an intersection at different times, the first to arrive goes first. Yielding to the driver on the right is the tie-breaker only when vehicles arrive together.
Under Virginia law, who in a car must wear a safety belt?
- A Only the driver and anyone riding in the front seat
- B Only passengers under 18
- C Only the driver
- D The driver and all passengers, front and rear
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D. The driver and all passengers, front and rear
Virginia law requires the driver and all passengers, front and rear, to wear safety belts. Belts can double your chance of surviving a crash.
Your car stalls on a railroad track and a train is coming. What should you do?
- A Get out and run away in the direction the train is going
- B Stay in the car and keep trying to start it
- C Push the car off the tracks
- D Get out and run diagonally away, toward the train
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D. Get out and run diagonally away, toward the train
Get out right away and run diagonally away from the tracks toward the oncoming train. When the train hits your car, debris flies forward in the direction the train is traveling, so moving toward the train keeps you out of its path.
When may you turn left on a steady red light in Virginia?
- A From a one-way street onto another one-way street
- B From any street, after stopping and yielding
- C From a two-way street onto a one-way street
- D Never; left turns on red are always illegal
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A. From a one-way street onto another one-way street
You may turn left on red only from a one-way street onto another one-way street, after a complete stop and yielding to pedestrians and traffic. Signs or a red left arrow can still prohibit it.