When you are surprised with a dangerous situation, you should consider

1. your steering
2. your speed control and maintain space margins.
3. using your horn or lights to communicate.
4. All of the above ✓

Answer: D. All of the above

You should consider all of these: steering, speed control while keeping space margins, and using your horn or lights to communicate.

Why this is the answer

The handbook groups every riding solution under four DO skills: speed control, steering, space margins, and communication. It also uses a parked car pulling out as an example and asks you to use those same skills to avoid a crash. So when a hazard surprises you, you are not limited to one response. You can slow or stop, steer, keep a buffer around you, and use your horn or lights to let others know you are there. Considering all of them gives you more ways to deal with the danger.

Why the other answers are wrong

• A. your steering — Steering is only one of the DO skills; the handbook also lists speed control, space margins, and communication as possible solutions.
• B. your speed control and maintain space margins. — Speed control and space margins are part of the answer, but this choice leaves out steering and communication, which the handbook also lists.
• C. using your horn or lights to communicate. — Using the horn or lights is communication, but this choice leaves out speed control, steering, and space margins, which are also DO skills.

Remember it

When surprised, run through four checks: slow or stop, steer, keep a buffer, and signal.