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Texas permit test: right-of-way questions

Texas requires 70% right to pass the permit test and does not publish a fixed number of questions. Our practice test has 30 questions and asks for 21 right. Test format source

These 10 questions come from FirstTry's Texas bank, written from the Texas Driver Handbook. Pick your answer, then open "Show the answer". Each answer links to the handbook section it comes from.

10 right-of-way questions

You want to turn left at an intersection, and an oncoming car is going straight. Who goes first?

  1. You, because your turn signal was on first
  2. The oncoming car going straight
  3. Whichever vehicle is larger
  4. Whoever entered the intersection first
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The oncoming car going straight. A driver turning left always lets oncoming traffic that is going straight through the intersection go first.

From the handbook: Chapter 4: Right-of-Way > Turning Left (PDF page 26)

Your two-lane road meets a divided road at an intersection. Who has to yield?

  1. Traffic on the divided road must yield to you
  2. You do, to the traffic on the divided road
  3. Whichever vehicle is larger
  4. Whichever vehicle is on the left
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You do, to the traffic on the divided road. Drivers coming from a one-lane or two-lane road give way to traffic on a divided road or a road with three or more lanes.

From the handbook: Chapter 4: Right-of-Way > Single or Two-Lane Road Intersecting a Multi-Lane Road (PDF page 26)

Two roads of the same kind cross with no signs or signals. Which vehicles should you yield to?

  1. No one, as long as you get there first
  2. Vehicles that are in the intersection or coming toward it from your right
  3. Vehicles coming from your left
  4. Only vehicles that are going faster than you
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Vehicles that are in the intersection or coming toward it from your right. At an uncontrolled intersection, give way to traffic on your right that is in or approaching the intersection. Check the left too, and make sure others actually yield before you go.

From the handbook: Chapter 4: Right-of-Way > Intersections Not Controlled by Signs, Signals, Multi-Lanes, or Pavement (PDF page 26)

You are on a freeway frontage road. A car is coming off the freeway onto the frontage road just ahead of you. Who yields?

  1. Whichever car is faster
  2. The car leaving the freeway
  3. You, the frontage road driver
  4. Neither; both cars merge side by side
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You, the frontage road driver. On a frontage road, you give way to vehicles coming onto the frontage road from the highway and to vehicles leaving the frontage road to get onto the highway.

From the handbook: Chapter 4: Right-of-Way > Enter or Leave Controlled-Access Highway (PDF page 27)

On a road with three lanes going your way, you move from the right lane toward the middle lane just as another car moves into the middle lane from the left lane. Who yields?

  1. The car coming from the left
  2. Whoever signaled last
  3. The slower car
  4. You, because you are coming from the right
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You, because you are coming from the right. When two drivers head for the same lane at the same moment on a road with three or more lanes one way, the one coming from the right gives way.

From the handbook: Chapter 4: Right-of-Way > Driving on Multiple-Lane Roads (PDF page 27)

At a railroad crossing, who has the right-of-way?

  1. The train, every time
  2. Whichever reaches the crossing first
  3. Vehicles, if the crossing has no gate
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The train, every time. A train cannot stop quickly for a crossing, so it always has the right-of-way.

From the handbook: Chapter 4: Right-of-Way > Additional Safe Driving Procedures at Railroad Crossings (PDF page 28)

The right-of-way rules say you go first, but the other driver goes anyway. What should you do?

  1. Speed up to get through first
  2. Go anyway, because the right-of-way is yours
  3. Let the other driver go
  4. Honk and keep going
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Let the other driver go. The right-of-way is something you give, never something you take. If another driver ignores the rules, let them go and avoid a crash.

From the handbook: Chapter 4: Right-of-Way > Chapter introduction (PDF page 26)

At an all-way stop, you and a car on your right stop at exactly the same time. Who goes first?

  1. The bigger vehicle
  2. Whoever is going straight
  3. The car on your right
  4. You, since you are on the left
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The car on your right. At an all-way stop, drivers take turns in the order they arrived. On a tie, the driver on the left lets the driver on the right go first.

From the handbook: Chapter 5: Signals, Signs, and Markers > Table 19: Regulatory and Warning Signs (all-way stop) (PDF page 37)

You come to a single-lane roundabout. Who has the right-of-way?

  1. Vehicles entering from your right
  2. Vehicles already circulating in the roundabout
  3. You, as the vehicle entering
  4. The largest vehicle
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Vehicles already circulating in the roundabout. Wait for traffic inside the circle to pass, enter when there is a safe gap, and go around counterclockwise.

From the handbook: Chapter 9: Some Special Driving Situations > Roundabouts: Single-lane roundabout (PDF page 56)

You are entering a highway from an on-ramp. Who has the right-of-way?

  1. Vehicles already on the highway
  2. You, because you are merging
  3. Whichever vehicle is faster
  4. Only trucks
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Vehicles already on the highway. Merging traffic gives way to traffic already on the highway. Use the acceleration lane to signal and match the traffic's speed.

From the handbook: Chapter 9: Some Special Driving Situations > Highway Driving: Entering the Highway (PDF page 53)

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