Ten of the thirty questions on the real Delaware knowledge test are road signs. That is a third of your score from the single most learnable part of the exam. This free quiz gives you 15 signs questions drawn at random, which is more signs practice in one sitting than the real test contains, with an explanation after every answer.
Most of our questions ask what you should do rather than what a sign is called. Identifying a sign is worth nothing if you do not know the action it requires, and the real exam is written the same way.
Delaware Road Signs Test
Why signs are the easiest ten marks on the test
Every other section asks you to remember a rule. Signs ask you to read a system, and the system is small enough to learn in an afternoon.
Once you know that an octagon is always a stop, that yellow warns about the road while orange warns about workers, and that a red circle with a slash always prohibits, you can work out signs you have never seen before. That is exactly what the exam is testing. Nobody expects you to have memorized every sign in the manual.
Shapes
- Octagon: stop. Nothing else uses this shape.
- Upside-down triangle: yield.
- Diamond: a warning about the road ahead.
- Pentagon: school zone or school crossing.
- Round: a railroad crossing is ahead.
- Crossbuck: you are at the crossing now.
- Pennant, on the left of the road: no passing zone begins.
- Vertical rectangle: a regulation you must obey.
- Horizontal rectangle: guidance, directions, distances.
Colors
- Red: stop, yield, or prohibited.
- Yellow: a general warning about the road itself.
- Orange: a work zone with people in it.
- Fluorescent yellow-green: pedestrians, cyclists or school crossings.
- Green: directions, distances, permitted movements.
- Blue: driver services such as fuel, food, lodging and hospitals.
- Brown: parks, recreation and cultural sites.
- White with black lettering: a traffic law.
Ready for the full test?
Signs are ten of your thirty marks. When you are getting these right consistently, take the full Delaware permit practice test, which adds road rules, right of way, alcohol law and the merging and following-distance questions Delaware leans on. For requirements and the whole process, see the Delaware permit guide.
Disclaimer: Pass The Permit is an independent study resource and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles or any government agency. These are original practice questions, not actual exam questions. Always confirm current rules with the official Delaware Driver Manual.