What should you do if you become stranded in snow?
- Run your vehicle engine for approximately 5 minutes every hour for heating ✓
- Any of these
- Immediately leave the vehicle to look for help
- Run the engine continuously to keep the interior of the vehicle as warm as possible
Answer: A. Run your vehicle engine for approximately 5 minutes every hour for heating
Run your vehicle engine for about five minutes every hour to provide heat.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's stranded-in-severe-weather advice is to remain in the car for warmth and safety, leave a window slightly open for ventilation, and use the engine only sparingly. That points to short, spaced periods of running the engine for heat rather than keeping it on. The passage does not give the exact five-minutes-every-hour figure, so treat that detail as the bank's practical version of running the motor sparingly.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Any of these — Choosing any of these would include leaving the vehicle and running the engine non-stop, which the handbook does not advise.
- C. Immediately leave the vehicle to look for help — The handbook says to remain in your vehicle for warmth and safety until help arrives, so walking away is not the recommended action.
- D. Run the engine continuously to keep the interior of the vehicle as warm as possible — The handbook says to run the motor sparingly, so keeping it running continuously is the opposite of that advice.
Remember it
Think: shelter in the car, crack a window, and spare the motor.