What color are Pennsylvania's highway and expressway guide signs?
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A.
Orange background with black letters
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B.
Green background with white letters Correct
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C.
Yellow background with black letters
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D.
Blue background with white letters
The answer is "Green background with white letters"
Pennsylvania's highway and expressway guide signs are green with white letters, used on the advance and exit signs along interstates. Test-takers who pick orange are recalling work-zone signs from the previous page, yellow comes from the warning-sign palette, and blue belongs to service signs like HOSPITAL and GAS clustered near the same exits.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Orange background with black letters
Orange with black is the work-zone diamond scheme covered on the previous page, not the color used on Pennsylvania's rectangular highway and expressway guide signs. This answer reaches for the highest-visibility roadway color, forgetting orange with black is reserved for construction, maintenance, and utility work areas.
C. Yellow background with black letters
Yellow with black marks the diamond-shaped general warning signs, not the horizontal green rectangles that direct you to exits and destinations. This answer applies the warning-sign palette to any sign that seems to give the driver information, ignoring the shape difference between warnings and guides.
D. Blue background with white letters
Blue with white is the service-sign palette for HOSPITAL, TELEPHONE, FOOD, GAS, DIESEL, and LODGING, not the color of the exit destination signs above them. This answer swaps the guide-sign color with the service-sign palette a driver sees clustered on the same signposts near the exit ramp.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Signs in Pennsylvania. Source: Pennsylvania Driver Manual, "HIGHWAY/EXPRESSWAY GUIDE SIGNS," p.19..
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