Maine Motorcycle Test 03

The Maine Motorcycle Permit Test is designed to evaluate your knowledge of the Motorcycle Operator’s Manual, which covers vital topics like traffic signs, local road rules, safe riding techniques, and motorcycle-specific regulations.

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Maine Motorcycle Practice Test 03

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You should not share lanes with other drivers, except when...?

When you are leaving a highway

When letting them pass

Never

In very heavy traffic

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If you're being tailgated, speeding up will...?

Result in shaking off the tailgater

Result in the tailgater pulling off

Result in the tailgater passing you

Result in being tailgated at higher speed

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The driver ahead is most likely to see you if you position yourself so you can be seen in...

Their rearview mirror

Their left-hand side view mirror

Any of these

Their right-hand side view mirror

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As you prepare to ride into an intersection, you should cover...?

Both brakes and the clutch

Both brakes and the horn

The clutch and the front brake

The front brake and the headlight flasher

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When choosing motorcycle clothing, which of these colors should you avoid?

Yellow

Orange

Gray

Green

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You should make a special point of using your mirrors...?

Before changing lanes

When stopped at an intersection

In all of these situations

Before slowing down

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You should increase your following distance in which of these conditions?

Heavy traffic

Poor visibility

All of them

Wet roads

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As you approach a parked car you notice a person is sitting in the driver's seat. Your biggest concern should be that they...?

Might pull a U-turn across you

Might pull out into your lane

Might throw rubbish from their window

Might open the driver's door

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Your searching strategy should encompass...?

A 45° arc

A 90° arc

A 360° arc

A 180° arc

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You are approaching a blind intersection, and you can't see or hear any other traffic. There is a stop line. What should you do?

Stop at the stop line, move forward and stop again at the edge of the cross traffic lane

Drive over the stop line and stop at the edge of the cross traffic lane

Stop at the stop line, then go straight across

Keep going straight across without stopping

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It is permissible to exceed the posted speed limit to make a pass...?

If you can see clear road ahead

If the person you're passing speeds up

At any time

Never

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The 'RiderRadar' strategy involves scanning the road ahead at what distances?

5, 15 and 30 seconds

2, 4 and 12 seconds

1, 2 and 8 seconds

3, 5 and 15 seconds

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A police motorcyclist is riding in front of you; he drives over a stop line at an intersection ahead. You should not reach that stop line until how long has passed?

1 second

2 seconds

3 seconds

1.5 seconds

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You are approaching a truck stopped at a red light. Where should you stop?

Well back of it

On the left-hand side of the driver's cab

On the right-hand side of the driver's cab

Close to its rear bumper

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A large truck is approaching in the oncoming lane. The best place to go to deal with the wind blast is...?

Against the curb

Center lane

Left hand side of lane

Right hand side of lane

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You should use your low beam headlight...?

In bright sunlight

At dusk

In fog

In rain

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The grease and oil strip in the center of a lane it is normally only...?

3 feet wide

2 feet wide

1 foot wide

4 feet wide

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How should you employ your horn in an emergency situation?

Sound one long blast

Sound a series of quick beeps

Sound a random pattern of beeps

Sound one quick beep

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Which lane position should you generally choose to ride in?

Center

There is no set 'best' position

Left

Right

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You are riding across an urban block and planning to turn into an alleyway halfway up on the left. How do you let drivers behind know you are going to slow?

Wave your hand

Flash your brake light

Sound your horn

Stick your left leg out

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How can you be certain that a driver waiting at an intersection has seen you coming?

If they flash their lights

If they wave you through

If you make eye contact

You can't

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When you're preparing to make a pass on another vehicle, you should...?

Get in the left-hand side of the lane at a safe following distance

Get in the center of the lane, at a safe following distance

Get in the left-hand side of the lane, close up

Get in the right-hand side of the lane, close up

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You can mitigate the effects of your blind spot by...?

Making head checks

Listening for vehicles

Adjusting your mirrors

Sounding your horn before maneuvering

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You should be particularly assertive in your scanning in which of these areas?

Around construction zones

Around intersections

All of them

Around school zones

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If you ride with your headlight on in bright sunlight, how much more likely are you to be noticed?

It makes no difference

100%

50%

25%

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If you ride alongside a truck in the next lane, you are risking...?

All of these

Having nowhere to go in an emergency

Being in the driver's blind spot

The driver suddenly cutting across you

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When riding at night you should...?

Any of these depending on conditions

Ride at normal speed

Reduce your speed

Increase your speed

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At what point in a turn should you cancel your signals?

As soon as the turn is completed

As soon as the turn is commenced

As soon as you are past the apex

25 yards past the end of the turn

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You are riding on the freeway when you see a car ahead merging to join your lane. There is no space in the lane to your left. What should you do?

Slow down to allow them to merge

Maintain speed and prepare to pass them on their right

Maintain speed and lean on horn to make them stop

Speed up to get past before they merge

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You're riding straight across an intersection where a car is waiting to turn left. You should...?

Gradually edge away from it

Sharply veer away from it

Rapidly increase speed

Gradually edge towards it

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