Florida Motorcycle Test 03

Don’t sweat if you don’t pass the practice test initially. Use this as an opportunity to identify your weak spots and revisit the sections of the Florida Motorcycle Handbook that need extra attention. The operator’s handbook is your best resource for understanding the rules and concepts you’ll be tested on.

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Florida Motorcycle Practice Test 03

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If you have convex mirrors, you should be aware that they do what?

Make vehicles appear nearer than they really are

Make vehicles appear farther away than they really are

Make vehicles appear faster than they really are

Make vehicles appear slower than they really are

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To maximize your chances of being able safely to deal with a hazard, you should try to ride?

With no vehicles on your left hand side

With no vehicles on either side

With no vehicles on your right hand side

With no vehicles behind you

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When it is a good idea to tap your brake pedal to flash your brake light?

When you're slowing in a position others might not anticipate

All of these situations

When you're slowing more quickly than others might expect

When you're being tailgated

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You should be aware that to the car driver, you often appear?

Bigger and faster than you really are

Smaller and slower than you really are

Bigger and slower than you really are

Smaller and faster than you really are

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You should be especially aware of oil and grease on the road at?

Truck stops

All of these

Tollbooths

Busy intersections

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When searching for potential hazards, you should focus on which area?

In front

In front and behind

In front and left and right

360° around you

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You're approaching a parked car with a person in the driver's seat. What should you be most concerned about?

That they may open their door

That they may throw rubbish from the window

That they may pull a U-turn

That they may pull out without signaling

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When somebody is tailgating you, you should?

Speed up to escape them

Block them from passing

Encourage them to pass

Gesture to them to back off

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When you are confronted with a sudden hazard, which of these should you not do?

Swerve then brake

Brake, swerve then brake again

Brake and swerve together

Brake then swerve

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You're approaching a driver waiting in an intersection on your left. Eye contact is?

Compulsory

Worthless

Impossible

Desirable

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Maintaining a minimum 2 seconds stopping distance gives what advantage?

Enough time to swerve

Enough room to brake

All of these

More chance to see hazards

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If you ride with your lights on during the day, how much more likely are car drivers to see you?

25% more likely

Not at all more likely

Twice as likely

50% more likely

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You should always work on the assumption that other drivers?

Will try to protect you

Haven't seen you

Are generally courteous

Will obey traffic laws

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You should cover the clutch and both brakes?

On freeways

On residential streets

In school zones

In urban areas

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You are approaching a blind intersection on your right. What's your best lane position?

In the center of your lane

In the right hand gutter

To the right of your lane

Close to the center line

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When is it permissible to exceed the posted speed limit in making a pass?

When you can't safely finish the pass without doing so

When you can immediately slow as soon as the pass is complete

It never is

When the driver you want to pass is already on the speed limit

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Riders in crashes have most often done what?

Under braked the front and over braked the rear

Under braked the rear and over braked the front

Under braked both front and rear

Over braked both front and rear

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Your following distance at night should be at least?

2 seconds

3 seconds

4 seconds

1 second

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You are riding along a 2 lane highway when a large truck approaches you coming the other way. Where should you position yourself?

The right of your lane

The left of your lane

The center of your lane

Right in the gutter

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If you're approaching an intersection with traffic behind you at night, you should remember?

You will be well illuminated by the traffic behind

You may appear closer than you really are

Your light may merge with those of the traffic behind

You may appear to be going faster than you are

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You can mitigate the effect of your blind spot by?

Angling your mirrors

Looking over your shoulder

Listening for traffic noise

Riding faster

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Where is the greatest potential for conflict between yourself and other traffic?

Country roads

Freeways

Parking lots

Intersections

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When preparing to make a pass to the left of a car, where is your best position?

In the center of the lane, at normal following distance

In the left of the lane, close up

In the left of the lane, at normal following distance

In the center of the lane, close up

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In an emergency situation, how should you employ your horn?

Sound it in a random pattern

Sound a succession of short beeps

Sound it loud and long

Sound a single short beep

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When a car ahead is merging onto the highway, you must be aware?

They may be going much slower than you

Of all of these factors

They may not have seen you

They may try to cross more than one lane at once

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In slippery conditions you should increase your following distance by at least how much?

A half

A third

A tenth

A quarter

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When choosing your riding gear for visibility, you should remember that the majority of crashes occur?

At dusk

At dawn

In broad daylight

At night

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What's the best way to let potential human hazards know that you are present?

Use your horn and/or lights

Accelerate towards them

Shout loudly

Rev your engine

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You should always remember that most car drivers mainly use?

All mirrors alternately

Their rearview mirror

Their left side view mirror

Their right side view mirror

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You should only share your lane?

In heavy traffic

With compact cars

With another motorcycle

You should never do this

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