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Free Colorado permit practice for road signs, right-of-way, safe driving, and more—with explanations that point back to the official Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles handbook.
The Colorado permit knowledge test has 25 questions; you need 20 correct (80%) to pass. That is below the median of 30 questions across the 50 states QuizLane tracks — a shorter test, but each wrong answer costs proportionally more.
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1. Colorado seat-belt law generally requires which occupants to wear a fastened safety belt?
- Every driver and every front-seat passenger in a covered motor vehicle
- BOnly passengers under 18
- COnly rear-seat passengers
- DOnly the driver
Answer: Every driver and every front-seat passenger in a covered motor vehicle. C.R.S. §42-4-237 requires every driver of and every front seat passenger in a covered motor vehicle equipped with a safety belt system to wear a fastened safety belt while the motor vehicle is being operated on a street or highway in this state.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes — §42-4-237
2. On a Colorado highway with separate roadways, a driver meeting a school bus on a different roadway:
- Need not stop
- BMust slow to 15 mph only
- CMust stop only at night
- DMust always stop
Answer: Need not stop. C.R.S. §42-4-1903 provides that the driver of a vehicle upon a highway with separate roadways need not stop upon meeting or passing a school bus which is on a different roadway.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes — §42-4-1903
3. When a Colorado school bus has actuated visual signal lights, approaching drivers must stop at least:
- A10 feet before the bus
- B15 feet before the bus
- 20 feet before the bus
- D25 feet before the bus
Answer: 20 feet before the bus. C.R.S. §42-4-1903 requires stopping at least twenty feet before reaching a school bus with actuated visual signal lights, and not proceeding until the lights are no longer actuated.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes — §42-4-1903
4. Colorado law prohibits standing or parking within how many feet of a fire hydrant?
- A20 feet
- B5 feet
- C10 feet
- 15 feet
Answer: 15 feet. C.R.S. §42-4-1204 prohibits standing or parking within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes — §42-4-1204
5. On Colorado four-lane highways and other highways where the prima facie or posted speed limit is more than 40 mph, a turn signal must be given continuously for at least:
- 200 feet
- B300 feet
- C50 feet
- D100 feet
Answer: 200 feet. C.R.S. §42-4-903(2) requires a continuous turn signal for at least the last 100 feet in urban or metropolitan areas, and for at least 200 feet on four-lane highways and other highways where the prima facie or posted speed limit is more than 40 mph.
Source: Colorado Revised Statutes — §42-4-903(2)
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