Minnesota Road Signs Test (2026)
Every road sign on the Minnesota exam, with what it means. Free and unlimited.
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What this test covers
This draw of 40 questions breaks down like this:
- Traffic Signs & Signals — 15
- Right-of-Way & Intersections — 9
- Traffic Lanes, Passing & Turning — 8
- Sharing the Road — 3
- Speed Limits & Speed Management — 2
- Emergencies & Crashes — 1
- Signaling & Communication — 1
- Vehicle Equipment — 1
Heaviest on Traffic Signs & Signals (15 of 40) — that is the section to revise first if you miss several here.
4 are Minnesota-specific questions, drawn from the state handbook rather than general road rules.
Each test on this site draws a different set, so Test 1, 2 and 3 never repeat a question.
Questions on this test
1. This sign shape warns of:
- A hospital
- A school zone or school crossing
- A railroad crossing
- A dead end
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Answer: A school zone or school crossing
The pentagon shape marks a school zone or school crossing ahead.
2. An orange diamond with a downward arrow ('SLOW' / reduced speed) tells you to:
- Turn around
- Stop and park
- Speed up
- Reduce your speed for the work zone ahead
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Answer: Reduce your speed for the work zone ahead
Orange reduced-speed signs mean slow down for the upcoming work zone.
3. What does this sign tell you to do?
- Keep to the right of a divider or obstruction
- Merge right
- Turn right only
- No right turn
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Answer: Keep to the right of a divider or obstruction
A keep-right sign directs you to pass to the right of a median or obstacle.
4. When an emergency vehicle approaches with lights and siren, you should:
- Speed up
- Pull to the right and stop
- Turn left
- Stop in your lane
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Answer: Pull to the right and stop
Pull to the right edge and stop until it passes.
5. When exiting a roundabout, you should:
- Signal your exit and watch for pedestrians in the crosswalk
- Speed up sharply
- Stop first
- Reverse
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Answer: Signal your exit and watch for pedestrians in the crosswalk
Signal before your exit and yield to pedestrians crossing at the exit.
6. A white sign showing a left-curving arrow above a lane means that lane:
- Must be used to turn left
- Merges right
- Is closed
- Is for parking
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Answer: Must be used to turn left
A left-turn lane-use sign means that lane may only turn left.
7. A regulatory sign that is a white rectangle taller than it is wide is typically a:
- Speed limit or other traffic law
- Service sign
- Warning
- Guide sign
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Answer: Speed limit or other traffic law
Vertical white rectangles are regulatory — like a speed-limit sign.
8. Total stopping distance is made up of:
- Only braking distance
- Tire pressure
- Only reaction time
- Perception + reaction + braking distance
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Answer: Perception + reaction + braking distance
Stopping distance = how far you travel while perceiving, reacting, and then braking.
9. What does this sign warn of?
- A detour
- A winding road — a series of curves ahead
- A one-way street
- A racetrack
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Answer: A winding road — a series of curves ahead
This warns of a winding road (several curves). Reduce speed.
10. On entering a sharp curve too fast, you risk:
- A ticket only
- Losing traction and running off the road
- Better handling
- Nothing
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Answer: Losing traction and running off the road
Too much speed in a curve can break traction and send you off the road — slow before it.
11. Dim your high beams within how many feet of an oncoming vehicle?
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Answer: 500
Dim within 500 feet of oncoming traffic (and 300 feet when following).
12. An emergency vehicle is approaching with lights and siren on. You should:
- Continue at the same speed
- Stop immediately in your lane
- Pull over to the right edge of the road and stop until it passes
- Speed up to clear the intersection
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Answer: Pull over to the right edge of the road and stop until it passes
Pull to the right edge and stop until the emergency vehicle has passed.
13. A motorcycle in Minnesota is entitled to:
- Half a lane
- The shoulder only
- A full lane of travel
- No lane
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Answer: A full lane of travel
Motorcycles are entitled to a full lane.
14. At an uncontrolled T-intersection, the driver on the road that ends must:
- Stop only at night
- Go first
- Speed up
- Yield to traffic on the through road
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Answer: Yield to traffic on the through road
The through road has priority; the ending road yields.
15. Turning left at a green light with oncoming traffic present, you should:
- Turn from the right lane
- Wait in the intersection (if legal) and turn when there's a safe gap
- Turn quickly first
- Back up
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Answer: Wait in the intersection (if legal) and turn when there's a safe gap
You may enter to wait, then complete the left turn when oncoming traffic clears.
16. At a four-way stop, you should proceed:
- Whenever you want
- After honking
- Only if biggest
- In the order vehicles arrived and stopped
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Answer: In the order vehicles arrived and stopped
Go in arrival order; if you tie, the driver on the right goes first.
17. What does this sign warn of?
- A bridge
- A tunnel light
- Low clearance — height limit ahead
- A dip
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Answer: Low clearance — height limit ahead
A low-clearance sign warns of limited overhead height; tall vehicles must not proceed if too high.
18. If your rear wheels skid, you should steer:
- Opposite the skid
- Straight and brake hard
- Into the curb
- In the same direction the rear is sliding, then straighten
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Answer: In the same direction the rear is sliding, then straighten
Steer in the direction the rear is sliding to regain control, then straighten out.
19. A pedestrian is in a crosswalk as you approach. You must:
- Yield the right-of-way to the pedestrian
- Proceed if you get there first
- Honk so they hurry
- Only stop if a signal tells you to
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Answer: Yield the right-of-way to the pedestrian
Drivers must always yield the right-of-way to pedestrians in a crosswalk.
20. What does this blue sign with a wheelchair symbol indicate?
- A bus stop
- Parking reserved for people with disabilities
- A hospital
- A ramp
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Answer: Parking reserved for people with disabilities
The blue wheelchair sign marks disabled parking — a valid permit is required.
21. Minnesota's Move Over Law applies to stopped tow trucks, ambulances, fire trucks and:
- Delivery vans
- Only buses
- Police cars and other authorized vehicles
- Only police
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Answer: Police cars and other authorized vehicles
It covers police, ambulances, fire trucks, tow trucks and other authorized vehicles.
22. On a two-lane road, you normally pass another vehicle on which side?
- The left
- The right
- The shoulder
- Either side
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Answer: The left
Pass on the left. Passing on the right is allowed only in limited situations.
23. Turning right on red, you must yield to:
- No one
- Only bikes
- Pedestrians and cross traffic before turning
- Only cars
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Answer: Pedestrians and cross traffic before turning
Right-on-red is allowed after a full stop, yielding to pedestrians and cross traffic.
24. At a red light, when may you turn right?
- After a complete stop, if it's safe and no sign prohibits it
- Never
- Anytime without stopping
- Only with a green arrow
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Answer: After a complete stop, if it's safe and no sign prohibits it
Right on red is allowed after a full stop, when safe, unless a 'No Turn on Red' sign is posted.
25. The shape of a warning sign is usually a:
- Rectangle
- Diamond
- Circle
- Octagon
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Answer: Diamond
Most warning signs are yellow diamonds.
26. A green light turns to a steady green arrow for your turn. This means:
- Turn is now prohibited
- Stop
- You now have a protected turn — oncoming traffic is stopped
- Yield to oncoming still
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Answer: You now have a protected turn — oncoming traffic is stopped
A green arrow gives a protected turn; opposing traffic is held.
27. What does this orange sign with a bending arrow mean?
- Road closed permanently
- One way
- Merge
- Detour — follow the marked alternate route
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Answer: Detour — follow the marked alternate route
An orange detour sign directs you along a temporary alternate route.
28. A steady yellow light warns that the signal is about to turn:
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Answer: Red
Yellow means red is coming — stop if you safely can.
29. If your turn signals fail in Minnesota, you should:
- Turn without warning
- Not signal
- Use hand signals
- Use the horn
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Answer: Use hand signals
Use hand signals if your turn signals fail.
30. When making a LEFT turn, you should turn from and into which lanes?
- From the right lane into any lane
- From whichever lane is open
- From the lane nearest the center, into the lane just right of center
- From the shoulder
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Answer: From the lane nearest the center, into the lane just right of center
Begin from the lane nearest the center line and end in the lane just to the right of the center of the road you enter.
31. You are driving and see this red sign facing you. It means:
- Yield
- Continue
- Speed up
- You are going the wrong way — do not proceed; turn around
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Answer: You are going the wrong way — do not proceed; turn around
A red 'Wrong Way' sign means you're headed against traffic — stop and turn around safely.
32. A center lane marked with a solid yellow line and a dashed yellow line on each side is used for:
- Parking
- Making left turns only (from either direction)
- Through driving
- Passing slower traffic
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Answer: Making left turns only (from either direction)
This is a two-way left-turn lane — used only to make left turns from either direction, never for through travel or passing.
33. Construction/work-zone signs are what color?
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Answer: Orange
Work-zone signs are orange.
34. This sign warns that you are approaching:
- A rest area
- A roundabout only
- A railroad crossing
- A toll booth
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Answer: A railroad crossing
A round yellow sign is the advance warning for a railroad crossing.
35. The acceleration lane on a highway on-ramp is for:
- Passing
- Speeding up to match traffic before merging
- Parking
- Stopping
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Answer: Speeding up to match traffic before merging
Use it to reach highway speed so you can merge into a gap smoothly.
36. When turning, you should complete the turn in the:
- Center turn lane
- Shoulder
- Nearest legal lane
- Farthest lane
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Answer: Nearest legal lane
Turn into the nearest legal lane going your direction; don't swing wide across lanes.
37. You are turning left at an intersection with a steady green light. You must:
- Turn immediately — you have the green
- Sound your horn and turn
- Yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians, then turn when safe
- Stop and wait for a green arrow
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Answer: Yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians, then turn when safe
A green light lets you turn left only after yielding to oncoming traffic and pedestrians.
38. On a divided highway, an emergency vehicle approaches from behind on your side. You should:
- Pull to the right and stop until it passes
- Cross the median
- Stop in the left lane
- Speed up
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Answer: Pull to the right and stop until it passes
Pull to the right edge and stop; don't cross a median.
39. A safe U-turn requires:
- A clear view of traffic in both directions and no prohibiting sign
- A red light
- A hill
- Heavy traffic
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Answer: A clear view of traffic in both directions and no prohibiting sign
Only make a U-turn where you can see well both ways and it isn't prohibited.
40. When another driver is trying to pass you, you should:
- Speed up
- Brake hard
- Maintain speed or slow slightly and stay right
- Move left
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Answer: Maintain speed or slow slightly and stay right
Help them pass: keep right and don't speed up.
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