On a Nevada highway you see a pennant-shaped sign. What does this shape signal to a driver?
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A.
Yield the right-of-way
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B.
School zone or school crossing area
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C.
Railroad crossing ahead
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D.
Start of a no-passing zone Correct
The answer is "Start of a no-passing zone"
Nevada assigns sign shapes to specific meanings. The pennant is reserved for no-passing zones. Other shapes carry other meanings: the inverted triangle means yield, the pentagon signals school areas, and the round shape warns of a railroad crossing ahead. Half-prepared learners often mix these up because the pennant is the least common shape on the list.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Yield the right-of-way
Confuses the pennant with the inverted triangle used for yield right-of-way. This answer runs on the everyday rule of thumb 'a pointed sign means yield,' since drivers meet yield triangles constantly and rarely see the horizontal pennant on real roads.
B. School zone or school crossing area
Confuses the pennant with the pentagon shape used for school zones and crossings. This answer reaches for the pennant because driver-ed materials teach pentagon-as-school so heavily that any leftover unusual outline gets sorted under the same heading by default.
C. Railroad crossing ahead
Confuses the pennant with the round shape that warns of an approaching railroad crossing. This answer substitutes the pennant when memory blanks on the round advance-warning sign, since study guides seldom picture it and readers grab whichever less-common outline they can recall.
This question tests your knowledge of Warning Signs in Nevada. Source: Nevada Driver Manual, "Signs, Signals and Markings," p.28..
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