Delaware Permit Test: Lanes & Passing Practice Questions

Correct answer: At least three feet

Motorists must leave at least three feet of clearance when passing a cyclist, and change lanes if the lane is too narrow.

Source: Section Four – Some Important Delaware Laws

Correct answer: Yes, change lanes if the lane is too narrow

Drivers must change lanes, including across a double yellow line, when passing bicycles if lanes are too narrow to share.

Source: Section Four – Bicycles

Correct answer: Only to warn of imminent danger

Motorists are forbidden from honking at bicyclists unless there is imminent danger.

Source: Section Four – Bicycles

Correct answer: As a yield sign

At minor-road stop signs with no stopped vehicle, cyclists may treat the stop sign as a yield sign after slowing and yielding.

Source: Section Four – Bicycles

Correct answer: The right lane, except to pass

Stay in the right lane except to pass; on three or more lanes with heavy entering/exiting traffic, use the center lane.

Source: Section Four – General Rules

Correct answer: Yes, with extreme care

You may use the shoulder to pass left-turning vehicles on the right in Delaware, but extreme care is required.

Source: Section Four – General Rules

Correct answer: Only to parallel park or exit a driveway

Never back in a travel lane except to parallel park or if necessary to exit a driveway.

Source: Section Four – General Rules

Correct answer: Give way to the right and not speed up

Vehicles being overtaken shall give way to the right and not increase their speed until fully overtaken.

Source: Section Four – Some Important Delaware Laws

Correct answer: One-third of a mile

You must see at least one-third of a mile ahead; don’t start to pass within one-third of a mile of a hill or curve.

Source: Section Five – Sharing Space

Correct answer: When you see its front in your rearview mirror

Move back only when you can see the front of the truck in your rearview mirror; then maintain your speed.

Source: Section Four – Sharing the Road With a Truck

Correct answer: Keep to the far side and slow slightly

Keep to the far side of your lane and reduce speed slightly; don’t speed up while the truck passes.

Source: Section Four – Sharing the Road With a Truck

Correct answer: No

Never move into the same lane alongside a motorcycle; it is illegal and extremely hazardous.

Source: Section Four – Sharing the Road With Motorcycles

Correct answer: Four seconds

Follow at a two-second count under 40 mph and a four-second count above 40 mph.

Source: Section Four – Sharing the Road With Motorcycles