12 sample questions from a bank of 226.
1. Unless otherwise posted, what is the prima facie speed limit on a street (other than an alley) in an urban district in Texas?
- ·20 mph
- ·25 mph
- ✓Answer: 30 mph
- ·35 mph
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Speed Limits (Transp. Code §545.352)
2. What is the prima facie speed limit in an alley in an urban district in Texas?
- ✓Answer: 15 mph
- ·20 mph
- ·25 mph
- ·30 mph
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Speed Limits (Transp. Code §545.352)
3. Unless otherwise posted, what is the prima facie speed limit on a highway numbered by Texas or the U.S. that is outside an urban district?
- ·55 mph
- ·65 mph
- ·75 mph
- ✓Answer: 70 mph
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Speed Limits (Transp. Code §545.352)
4. For a highway outside an urban district that is NOT numbered by the state or the U.S., what is the prima facie speed limit in Texas?
- ·55 mph
- ✓Answer: 60 mph
- ·65 mph
- ·70 mph
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Speed Limits (Transp. Code §545.352)
5. What is the highest speed limit the Texas Transportation Commission may establish on a part of the state highway system designed for it?
- ·75 mph
- ·80 mph
- ✓Answer: 85 mph
- ·90 mph
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Speed Limits (Transp. Code §545.353)
6. Unless otherwise posted, what is the speed limit when driving on a beach in Texas?
- ·10 mph
- ·20 mph
- ·25 mph
- ✓Answer: 15 mph
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Speed Limits (Transp. Code §545.352)
7. Under the Texas basic (statutory) speed law, a driver must always drive at a speed that is:
- ·Exactly the posted speed limit at all times
- ✓Answer: Reasonable and prudent under the existing conditions
- ·As fast as surrounding traffic is moving
- ·At least 10 mph below the posted limit
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Speed Limits (Transp. Code §545.351)
8. At an intersection with no signs or signals (an uncontrolled intersection), when two vehicles reach it at about the same time, who must yield?
- ·The larger vehicle
- ·The faster vehicle
- ✓Answer: The driver must yield to the vehicle on the right
- ·The driver must yield to the vehicle on the left
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Right-of-Way (Transp. Code §545.151)
9. You are driving on an unpaved road that meets a paved road. What must you do?
- ✓Answer: Yield to vehicles on the paved road
- ·Proceed because unpaved roads have priority
- ·Speed up to merge ahead of paved traffic
- ·Stop only if a sign is posted
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Right-of-Way (Transp. Code §545.151)
10. At a T-intersection, the road you are on ends at a through road. What must you do?
- ·Continue without stopping since you have priority
- ·Sound your horn and proceed
- ✓Answer: Yield to traffic on the through road
- ·Force oncoming traffic to stop for you
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Right-of-Way (Transp. Code §545.151)
11. When you are turning left at an intersection, you must yield the right-of-way to:
- ·Only pedestrians, never vehicles
- ·Vehicles behind you
- ·Nobody, because left turns have priority
- ✓Answer: Oncoming traffic that is close enough to be an immediate hazard
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Right-of-Way (Transp. Code §545.152)
12. At a four-way stop, two vehicles arrive at exactly the same time. Who goes first?
- ·The vehicle turning left
- ✓Answer: The vehicle on the right
- ·The vehicle that honks first
- ·The vehicle on the left
Source: Texas Driver Handbook — Right-of-Way (Transp. Code §545.151)