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NL Class 5: Sign shapes and regulatory signs

What each sign shape and colour means, the stop, yield, crossbuck and school signs, red-slash and green-circle signs, speed, turn, parking, one-way, keep-right and accessible parking signs.

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At a stop sign with a painted stop line, where must you stop?

Study reference: Newfoundland and Labrador Driver's Handbook (2025 edition), Ch. 3 Traffic Signs and Pavement Markings — Traffic signs, Common regulatory signs, pp. 64–68

All 25 questions in this test

Every question and its answer choices. The correct answers and explanations appear when you take the test above.

  1. At a stop sign with a painted stop line, where must you stop?

    1. Wherever you can see best
    2. At the stop line
    3. Beside the sign post
    4. Past the stop line, at the curb

  2. What does this sign require of drivers?

    White square with a black arrow curving to the right around a black rounded block
    1. Turn right at the next corner
    2. Keep to the right of the island
    3. Merge right, lane ends
    4. Keep left of the median

  3. Which shape warns that school children may be present?

    1. A pentagon (five sides)
    2. A diamond
    3. An octagon
    4. A horizontal rectangle

  4. What does this sign mean?

    White square with a black bicycle crossed by a red circle and slash
    1. Watch for cyclists crossing
    2. Bicycles must use the shoulder
    3. Bicycle lane ahead
    4. No bicycles on this highway

  5. Green rectangular signs with white lettering tell drivers about what?

    1. Tourist attractions and parks
    2. Parking rules
    3. Distances and directions to places
    4. Construction ahead

  6. What does this sign mark?

    White X-shaped sign with black lettering on both arms
    1. A four-way stop
    2. A no-entry road
    3. A dangerous intersection
    4. A railway crossing

  7. Who may use a parking space reserved for mobility-impaired drivers?

    1. Delivery drivers with flashers on
    2. Any driver over 65
    3. A permit holder or someone with them
    4. Anyone stopping under 15 minutes

  8. What does this sign tell you at an intersection?

    White square with a black arrow turning left, crossed by a red circle and slash
    1. Left turns are not allowed
    2. Turn left only
    3. Left turns allowed after stopping
    4. Left lane ends ahead

  9. What does a red circle with a red diagonal stroke on a sign mean?

    1. The action shown is not allowed
    2. The action shown is required
    3. The action shown is allowed at night
    4. The action shown is advised

  10. What does this sign mean?

    White square with a red circle and a white horizontal bar across it
    1. The road ahead is closed for repairs
    2. Stop and then proceed
    3. You must not enter this street
    4. Two-way traffic ahead

  11. A sign says a passing lane begins 2 km ahead. When you reach it, several oncoming vehicles are also near it. What should you do?

    1. Use it first since you saw the sign
    2. Yield the passing lane to them
    3. Pass on the shoulder instead
    4. Speed up to claim the lane

  12. You see a vertical rectangular or square white sign. What kind of information does it most likely give?

    1. A hazard on the road
    2. Tourist services ahead
    3. A regulation you must obey
    4. Distance to the next town

  13. A regulatory sign shows a symbol inside a green circle. What does the green circle tell you?

    1. The action is permitted or required
    2. The action is forbidden
    3. The action is only a suggestion
    4. The area is a tourist route

  14. What does this black and white sign tell you about the street?

    Black rectangle with a white arrow pointing right and lettering inside the arrow
    1. Detour to the right
    2. Turn right only
    3. Traffic moves in one direction only
    4. Two-way traffic begins on the street ahead

  15. A sign is shaped like an upside-down triangle. What does that shape always tell you?

    1. School children may be present
    2. Stop completely
    3. A hazard is ahead
    4. Yield the right-of-way

  16. What does a horizontal rectangular sign usually give you?

    1. Hazard warnings
    2. Railway warnings
    3. Speed regulations for the area
    4. Directions and distances

  17. What does this sign tell you?

    White square with a black U-shaped arrow, crossed by a red circle and slash
    1. Do not make a U-turn
    2. U-turns allowed only on green
    3. Do not turn left
    4. Road curves sharply ahead

  18. What must you do at this sign?

    Red eight-sided sign with white lettering
    1. Stop only if other traffic is present
    2. Come to a full stop, then go when it is clear
    3. Sound your horn and proceed slowly
    4. Slow down and go if no one is coming

  19. What does this sign require you to do?

    Downward-pointing white triangle with a wide red border
    1. Stop every time
    2. Speed up to merge
    3. Proceed without checking
    4. Slow down and be ready to stop

  20. Flashing signals at a railway crossing warn that a train is coming. How close to the nearest rail may you stop?

    1. No closer than 5 metres
    2. No closer than 2 metres
    3. No closer than 15 metres
    4. No closer than 10 metres

  21. What should you do when you pass this sign?

    Five-sided fluorescent yellow-green sign with two black walking figures
    1. Change lanes to the left
    2. Slow down and watch for children
    3. Keep your speed but sound your horn
    4. Stop and wait for a crossing guard

  22. What does an eight-sided sign always mean?

    1. Yield
    2. Stop
    3. Railway crossing
    4. School zone

  23. You see a brown rectangular sign with white lettering. What is it telling you about?

    1. Rest areas, parks or historic sites
    2. A truck route
    3. A school zone
    4. Road work or a detour coming up ahead

  24. Who is not permitted on a highway marked with this sign?

    White square with a black walking figure crossed by a red circle and slash
    1. Motorcycles
    2. Trucks
    3. Pedestrians
    4. Cyclists

  25. What does this sign show?

    White vertical rectangle with black lettering and a large number 50
    1. The legal maximum speed
    2. The minimum speed
    3. The speed in kilometres to the next town
    4. A recommended speed only

Sign shapes and regulatory signs: key rules to remember

Our summary of what the official handbook says on this topic, in our own words. Read it before or after the practice questions above, then check the original chapter. Read the official chapter ↗

Traffic signs (shapes)

  • Eight-sided (octagon) = stop, always.
  • Horizontal rectangle = directions and distances.
  • Vertical rectangle or square = regulations.
  • Crossbuck (X shape) = railway crossing.
  • Upside-down (inverted) triangle = yield right-of-way, always.
  • Pentagon (five sides) = school children may be present; blue or fluorescent yellow.
  • Diamond = hazard ahead.

Stop, yield, crossbuck, school signs

  • Stop sign: red octagon, white letters. Come to a full stop; stop at the stop line or crosswalk; go only when clear. No other sign has the shape.
  • Yield sign: white triangle with wide red border (lettering may also be yellow/black). Slow down, be ready to stop, yield to oncoming traffic.
  • Crossbuck: white background, reflective red border. Be ready to stop. If a mechanical signal device or a flag person warns of a train, stop no less than 5 m from the nearest rail.
  • School ahead sign: blue pentagon with white student figures (may be fluorescent yellow); entering a school zone, slow down, watch for children; some show the school zone maximum speed.
  • Other blue signs shown: school zone/services ahead, school crossing, police station ahead.

Sign colours

  • Red circle with red diagonal stroke = whatever is shown is not permitted.
  • Green rectangle, white letters = information: distances/directions to cities, towns, communities, routes.
  • Brown rectangle, white letters = tourist information: rest areas, historic sites, parks, tourist chalets.
  • Regulatory signs: rectangular or square, white background, black or other colour lettering; speed limits, parking, turning, passing.
  • Green circle on a regulatory sign = what is shown is permitted or mandatory.

Common regulatory signs

  • Legal speed limit; pedestrians not permitted on highway; trucks may use highway; parking during certain times; do not enter; no U-turn; parking not permitted in direction of arrows; keep right of the island; centre lane is a shared left-turn lane; change in speed ahead.
  • Bicycles not permitted; keep right except to pass; one-way street; two-way left turns; no left turn; pedestrian crosswalk where drivers must yield.
  • Passing lane 2 km ahead. Use passing lane only if safe. Oncoming vehicles have the right to use that passing lane first; if several oncoming vehicles, yield to them.
  • Accessible (blue zone) parking: reserved for a permit holder or a person accompanying a permit holder; space painted blue in whole or part.

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