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WYOMING DRIVERS MANUAL HANDOUT

1. What documents must a first time applicant for a driver’s license present at the DMV? (pg. 7)

2. What three tests must you successfully pass to obtain a drivers license? (pg. 7-8)
1.
2.
3.

3. What are you required to do to obtain an intermediate driver’s license? (pg. 12)

4. What is a certificate of Title? (pg. 14)

5. What do you have to do to register a car? (pg. 14)

6. What are the consequences of driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs? (pg. 20-24)

b. What is the maximum fine and penalty for “Driving while under the influence?” (pg. 20)

c. What happens to you if you refuse the Blood Alcohol Tests when arrested? (pg. 20)

7. What is the penalty for reckless driving? (pg. 23)

8. What is the penalty for leaving the scene of an accident that you are involved in? (pg. 24)

9. How many moving violations can a person have per year before their license is expended? (pg. 25)

10. What is Liability Insurance? (pg. 26)

11. Explain the “Seat Belt Law” and the “Child Safety Seat” laws? (pg. 31-32)

12. What percent and number of traffic fatalities are caused from drunk driving per year? (pg. 33)

13. What three factors determine your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)? (pg. 33)
a.
b.
c.
14. Compare the alcohol in a shot 1 once of 80 proof whiskey, 12 ounces of beer, and 5 ounces of table
wine. (pg. 33)
15. What is the only way to reduce your blood alcohol concentration? (pg. 34)

16. What is the legal limit for Blood Alcohol Concentration BAC? (pg. 34)

17. What does alcohol do to your driving skills and judgment? (pg. 35)

18. Explain the “Implied Consent Law”? (pg. 37)

19. What are some special precautions to be taken on icy roads? (pg. 38)

20. When is it illegal to go the speed limit? (pg. 42) “Basic Speed Law”

b. What is the speed limit in a residential zone?

c. School zone?

21. What does it mean to over drive your headlights at night? (pg. 43)

22. What does the “Right of Way” mean?

23. Who has the right-of-way at an intersection where there are no signs or signals? (pg. 43-44)

a. Does an oncoming vehicle have the right of way, when you are making a left turn at an uncontrolled
intersection? (pg. 44)

24. How should you look/check for traffic at an intersection? (pg. 44)

25. What should you do at an intersection with a “yield” sign? (pg. 44)

26. Who should go first at an intersection with a four-way stop? (pg.45)

27. What should you do when you hear the siren or see the flashing lights of an emergency vehicle? (pg. 46,
68)

28. When must you yield the right of way to a pedestrian? (pg. 46)

29. What things determine how long it takes to stop a vehicle? (pg. 46)

30. What must you do when entering the street from an alley, driveway, or a garage? (pg. 47)
a. When you must stop for a school bus? (pg. 47)
b. When don’t you have to stop for a bus unloading passengers? (pg. 48)
31. List the proper procedures involved in changing lanes. (pg. 48) “SMOG”

32. How many feet/seconds from an intersection should a driver signal? (pg. 48)
33. Draw the arm signals for driving?
Right Turn –

Left Turn -

Stop -

34. Is it legal to pass more than one vehicle at a time? (pg. 51)

35. Is it legal to go over the speed limit to pass another vehicle? (pg. 52)

36. List the steps to take when passing another vehicle. (pg. 52)

37. What laws do bicyclists have to obey? (pg. 53, 68)

38. What are some clues you can look for to know if someone is in a parked car by the curb? (pg. 53)

39. List some parking restrictions where it is illegal to park your car. (pg. 55)

40. If you are parked facing uphill with a curb, which way should your front wheels be turned? (pg. 55)

a. If you are parked facing uphill without a curb, which way should you turn your front wheels? (pg. 56)

b. What other steps should you take when parking on a hill? (pg. 54-55)

41. What are the steps for emergency parking? (pg. 56)

42. What is the purpose of an interstate acceleration lane? (pg. 57)

43. What should you do if you miss your freeway exit? (pg. 57)

44. What steps should be used when leaving/exiting the freeway (pg. 58)

45. How can different signs and their meanings be identified? (pg. 60)

46. On a multi-lane road what lane should you drive in? (pg. 60)

47. What do the following pavement marking mean: (pg. 61)

a. White lines –
b. Yellow lines –
c. Broken lines –
d. Solid White lines –
e. Solid Yellow lines –
48. Draw the sign that gives advance warning of a railroad crossing? (pg. 63, 94)

49. What do flashing red lights at a railroad-crossing mean? (pg. 63)

50. List the things you are required to do by law if you are in an accident. (pg. 65)

a. What motor vehicle accidents need to be reported to the police? (pg. 64)

51. What does the law require you to do if you damage an unattended vehicle and you can’t find the owner?
(pg. 65)

52. List required equipment for a vehicle to be legal on the roads? (pg. 66)

53. What rights do motorcyclists have? (pg. 66)

a. Is it legal for them to ride side by side?

54. What percent of traffic fatalities are pedestrian related? (pg. 67)

55. How much space are you to leave a bicyclist? (pg. 68) Look on the wall.

56. What Safety equipment must a bike have after dark? (pg. 68)

57. What is the maximum speed a vehicle can travel if they have a slow moving vehicle sign? (pg. 68)

58. What are you required to do by law if there is an emergency vehicle parked on the side of the road? (pg.
69)

59. What actions can you take to reduce your chances of a crash? (pg. 70)

60. If a crash is inevitable what can a person do to minimize the damage? (pg. 70)

61. What does the acronym I.P.D.E. stand for? (pg. 69-70)
I
P
D
E

62. List some ways of communicating effectively with other drivers? (pg. 71-72)

63. What does it mean to Isolate your vehicle? (pg. 72)

64. How do you determine a safe following distance? (pg. 72)

65. What should the following distance be for: (pg. 73)

a. Rain
b. Snow
c. Ice

66. Why is it important to allow space to the sides of your car? How can you do this? (pg. 73)

67. What does it mean to separate risks? (pg. 74)

68. When should you turn on your headlights and taillights? (pg. 73)

69. At what distance are you required to turn your high beams to low with oncoming traffic? (pg. 75)

a. At what distance do you dim lights when approaching a vehicle from behind?

70. What can a person do to increase their visibility at night? (pg. 75)

71. List the things you should do when you drive in fog. (pg. 75)

72. When is it unsafe to use cruise control? (pg. 78)

73. What 3 things can you do to make an inevitable collision less dangerous? (pg.79)
a.
b
c.
74. What should you do if the gas pedal sticks? (pg.79)

75. What should you do if your car goes into a skid? (pg. 80)
a.
b.
c.

76. What is the difference between conventional brakes and anti – lock brakes? (pg. 80)

77. What should you do if your brakes fail? (pg. 80)

78. What steps should you take if you have a blow out? (pg. 80)
79. What should you do if you have an on coming car in your lane? (pg. 81)

80. What should you do if your wheels go off the road? (pg. 81)

81. What are some signs of carbon monoxide poisoning? (pg. 82)

82. Sometimes the safest thing to do when there is an animal hazard is to _________________ (pg. 84)

83. How is a person’s ability to drive effected by their emotions? (pg. 84)

84. What does it mean to have good vision while driving (besides 20/20)? (pg. 83-84)

85. What does the driver’s manual say about using a Cell Phone while driving? (pg. 85)

86. What/Where is considered to be crossing/crosswalks for pedestrians? (pg. 89)

87. What is hydroplaning? (pg. 76, 90)

88. To drive legally in the state of Wyoming, what three things must you carry in the vehicle? (on own)

89. Which state department is responsible for issuing licenses? (back cover)

90. What is Total Stopping Distance? (pg. 92)

91. What is a regulatory sign? Do you always have to obey them? What regulatory sign has 8 sides? (pg. 93-
95)

92. What does a STOP sign mean? (pg. 93)

93. What does a YIELD sign mean? (pg. 93)

94. Which types of signs are rectangular and black, white and red? (pg. 93)

95. Which type of sign is diamond shaped and yellow? (pg. 93)

96. What sign is brown and rectangular? (pg. 94)

97. What sign is blue, white and rectangular? (pg. 94)

98. What signs are orange, black and diamond shaped? (pg. 94)
99. What is the color and shape of a sign that tells you the distance to the next exit of a highway? (pg. 94)

100. What should you do when you approach an intersection and the traffic light changes from green
to yellow? (pg. 95)

101. How may you proceed at an intersection that has a green arrow in combination with a red light?
(pg. 95)

102. What does a flashing red light mean? (pg. 95)

103. What does a flashing amber light mean? (pg. 95)

104. Which lane should your vehicle be in after turning left into a two lane, one-way street? (pg. 50)

105. Where should you position your car when preparing to make a right hand turn? (on own)

106. Is keeping your eyes “straight ahead,” one of the rules of defensive driving? (pg. 70)

107. When do you need outside rear view mirrors on your car or truck?

108. What color must front turn signals be? Rear turn signals?

109. True or false: Bicyclists are required to give hand signals when turning or stopping? (pg. 67)

110. On which part of the roadway should a bicyclist ride? (pg. 67)

111. Why are minimum speeds posted on some freeways? (ask teacher)

112. How do you enter a freeway with a very short acceleration lane? (pg. 56)

113. Why is night driving more dangerous than daytime driving? (pg.83-84)

114. True or False: In the wintertime, it is okay to leave frost on your windshield and windows
during short trips. (pg. 76)

115. What must you do to reduce the chances of hydroplaning when roads are wet? (pg. 76)

116. If you are driving downhill on a narrow mountain road and meet another vehicle, who must yield
the right of way? (ask teacher)

117. Is it legal to pass on a two-lane, two-way road when you have a solid yellow line on your side?
(pg. 50-53