Illinois Permit Test (SOS Written Test) — All Questions

At an intersection with no signs or signals, you should yield to:

• a.The larger vehicle
• b.A vehicle that arrived first, or the one on your right if you arrive together✓
• c.The vehicle behind you
• d.The faster vehicle

At an uncontrolled intersection, yield to any vehicle already there; if you arrive at the same time, the driver on the left yields to the driver on the right.

In Illinois, a right turn on red is:

• a.Allowed without stopping
• b.Allowed only outside city limits
• c.Never allowed
• d.Allowed after a full stop and yielding, unless a sign prohibits it✓

You may turn right on a red light after stopping completely and yielding to pedestrians and traffic, unless a posted sign prohibits the turn.

You approach a stopped school bus with its red lights flashing and stop arm extended on a two-lane road. You must:

• a.Continue because oncoming traffic need not stop
• b.Slow to 20 mph and pass
• c.Stop, whether behind or meeting the bus, until the arm is withdrawn and lights stop flashing✓
• d.Pass on the left if clear

On a two-lane road, traffic in both directions must stop for a school bus loading or unloading with red lights flashing and stop arm out, and remain stopped until it is withdrawn.

When you make a left turn at a green light, you must yield to:

• a.Only bicycles
• b.Only vehicles behind you
• c.No one, since you have a green light
• d.Oncoming traffic and pedestrians crossing your path✓

A green light allows a left turn only after yielding to oncoming vehicles and to pedestrians in the crosswalk that you would cross.

When entering a roundabout in Illinois, you should:

• a.Yield to traffic already circulating and enter when there is a safe gap✓
• b.Expect circulating traffic to yield to you
• c.Enter to the left, moving clockwise
• d.Stop fully even if it is empty

Roundabout traffic moves counterclockwise; drivers entering must yield to vehicles already in the circle and merge when a safe gap appears.