According to the manual, what two signs tell you that a blowout has happened?
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A.
A loud noise and the vehicle beginning to swerve. Correct
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B.
A bumpy ride with no obvious reason.
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C.
A warning light appearing on the dashboard.
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D.
A sudden climb in engine RPM.
The answer is "A loud noise and the vehicle beginning to swerve."
The manual says you can tell a blowout by a loud noise and by the way the vehicle begins to swerve. A bumpy ride with no obvious reason sits in the sentence just before, but the manual uses it as a prompt to stop and check the tires, not as an identifier of a blowout. Drivers who skim the paragraph grab the first cue they see and answer with the bumpy-ride line out of habit.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. A bumpy ride with no obvious reason.
The manual uses that cue to tell you to stop and check the tires, not as a sign that a blowout has happened. Pulls the first sentence of the paragraph because rough-ride warnings are familiar from everyday highway chatter. This answer treats the inspect-your-tires prompt as the blowout identifier itself.
C. A warning light appearing on the dashboard.
The Blowouts section never mentions a dashboard indicator. Assumes modern tire-pressure sensors will announce the problem, a driving habit the manual does not list. This answer substitutes a tire-pressure warning light for the manual's loud-noise-and-swerve cues.
D. A sudden climb in engine RPM.
Engine RPM concerns engine speed, not the signs of a tire failure the manual lists. Pulls a throttle-related cue onto tires, a slip common when a reader is thinking about several emergencies on one page. This answer confuses an engine-speed symptom with the manual's tire-failure cues.
This question tests your knowledge of Emergencies in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Chapter 4 — Your Driving, Blowouts," p.76..
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