Colorado permit test practice questions

1. Safe driving

   A 2-year-old weighs 25 pounds, and a relative offers a booster. The car has a back seat. You should:

   Use an adult belt, because 25 pounds is over the 20-pound line.Use the booster the relative offered, in the back seat.Use a rear-facing or forward-facing car seat in the back.Use only a rear-facing seat. Forward-facing is not allowed yet.

   Answer: Use a rear-facing or forward-facing car seat in the back.

   A child age 2 but not yet 4, weighing at least 20 pounds, needs a rear-facing or forward-facing car seat. Use the back seat when the car has one.

   Easy to get wrong: A booster from the next age group, or a rear-facing seat only.

   Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337 (12/05/24), posted as the January 2025 handbook; the current edition on dmv.colorado.gov/drivereducation on 2026-10-30), p.3

2. Lanes and turns

   Cars are in the lanes beside you as you turn. How should you finish the turn?

   Keep to one lane, with no shortcut and no wide arc.Cut the corner a little to clear the car beside you.Swing wide so you have room to straighten out.Turn late, once you are past the corner and clear.

   Answer: Keep to one lane, with no shortcut and no wide arc.

   Finish in one lane. Do not cut the corner, swing wide, turn late, or ride two lanes.

   Easy to get wrong: Cutting the corner or swinging wide can feel like the way to avoid the cars beside you.

   Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337 (12/05/24), posted as the January 2025 handbook; the current edition on dmv.colorado.gov/drivereducation on 2026-10-30), Chapter 12, p.13

3. Right of way

   Your light has just turned green. A bicyclist and a person on foot are still inside the intersection. What should you do?

   Honk so both of them hurry out of the waySteer around them and enter on the green lightGo now, because a green light means move at onceWait until both of them are clear

   Answer: Wait until both of them are clear

   Yield to people on foot, bicyclists, and drivers already inside an intersection you are entering. A new green light does not erase that.

   Easy to get wrong: Reading a fresh green light as go while people are still in the intersection.

   Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337 (12/05/24), posted as the January 2025 handbook; the current edition on dmv.colorado.gov/drivereducation on 2026-10-30), p.11

4. Sharing the road

   A bicyclist rides in the center of a narrow lane to stay clear of parked-car doors. What should you do?

   Squeeze by on the right with almost no space leftStay behind until you can pass with roomPass on the right, between the rider and the parked carsHonk until the rider moves back to the curb

   Answer: Stay behind until you can pass with room

   A bicyclist may use the center of a narrow lane to avoid parked-car doors. Stay back until you can pass with room.

   Easy to get wrong: Squeezing past on the right, between the rider and the parked-car doors.

   Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337 (12/05/24), posted as the January 2025 handbook; the current edition on dmv.colorado.gov/drivereducation on 2026-10-30), p.22

5. Alcohol and drugs

   What does the handbook say about a blood THC level for driving while ability is impaired?

   Five nanograms per milliliter is the level.No THC level is set for that charge.Two nanograms per milliliter is the level.One nanogram per milliliter is the level.

   Answer: No THC level is set for that charge.

   No THC number is set for driving while ability is impaired. Five nanograms is the other charge, driving under the influence.

   Easy to get wrong: Picking five nanograms, or copying an alcohol cutoff, because the question sounds like it wants a number.

   Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337 (12/05/24), posted as the January 2025 handbook; the current edition on dmv.colorado.gov/drivereducation on 2026-10-30), p.5

6. Emergencies

   Between dusk and dawn, about what share of deer and elk crashes happen?

   About a quarter, near 25 percent.About 75 percent of them.About half, near 50 percent.About 90 percent.

   Answer: About 90 percent.

   About 90 percent of crashes with deer and elk happen between dusk and dawn.

   Easy to get wrong: Remembering about half of those crashes, or placing them in the middle of the day.

   Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337 (12/05/24), posted as the January 2025 handbook; the current edition on dmv.colorado.gov/drivereducation on 2026-10-30), p.25

7. Licensing

   You are under 18 and got your license eight months ago. Not counting a brother, a sister, or a medical emergency, how many passengers under 21 may you carry?

   Two passengers under 21One passenger under 21No passenger under 21Three passengers under 21

   Answer: One passenger under 21

   The clock starts when the license is issued. For the first six months, carry no passenger under 21 unless a parent or another licensed adult driver is in the car. After six months and before one year, you may carry one.

   Easy to get wrong: Using none from the first six months, or the seat-belt limit from after one year. Brothers, sisters, and medical emergencies do not count against that one.

   Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337 (12/05/24), posted as the January 2025 handbook; the current edition on dmv.colorado.gov/drivereducation on 2026-10-30), Chapter 2, p.2

8. Signs

   You are in a lane and see this arrow. What may you do from this lane?

   
   No movement until a green arrow lights.Only the movement the arrow shows.The arrow's movement, or straight if you prefer.The arrow's movement from whichever lane you want.

   Answer: Only the movement the arrow shows.

   A lane arrow, on a sign or painted in the lane, shows the movement allowed from that lane.

   Easy to get wrong: Going straight from a turn lane because the arrow seems optional.

   Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337 (12/05/24), posted as the January 2025 handbook; the current edition on dmv.colorado.gov/drivereducation on 2026-10-30), Chapter 7, p.8

9. Speed limits

   You go faster than the speed limit inside a construction zone. What can that fine be?

   Double the usual fine for that speed violation.Double the points, with the fine left unchanged.A warning only, because the zone is temporary.The same fine as for speeding anywhere else.

   Answer: Double the usual fine for that speed violation.

   Failing to follow the speed limit in a work or construction zone can bring a fine that is double.

   Easy to get wrong: Swapping the doubled fine for doubled points, or treating it like an ordinary speeding fine.

   Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337 (12/05/24), posted as the January 2025 handbook; the current edition on dmv.colorado.gov/drivereducation on 2026-10-30), p.12

10. Freeway

    A freeway merge is coming up, and you can move left safely. What should you do?

    Stay right, because the entering cars must yield to you.Stop in your lane and wave the entering cars in.Stay in your lane no matter how safe a move is.Move left and open a gap for the cars entering.

    Answer: Move left and open a gap for the cars entering.

    When it is safe, move over near a merge and make room for cars entering the freeway.

    Easy to get wrong: Staying in your lane because entering cars must yield. They must yield, and you still move over when it is safe.

    Colorado Driver Handbook (DR 2337 (12/05/24), posted as the January 2025 handbook; the current edition on dmv.colorado.gov/drivereducation on 2026-10-30), p.14

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