To help avoid skidding on slippery surfaces, you should:

1. Shift to a lower gear after starting down a steep hill.
2. Speed up to enter curves and slow down to exit them.
3. Slow down before entering curves and intersections. ✓

Answer: C. Slow down before entering curves and intersections.

To help avoid skidding on slippery surfaces, slow down before entering curves and intersections.

Why this is the answer

The handbook's list of ways to prevent skidding on slippery surfaces starts with slowing down as you approach intersections and curves, and for sharp curves it says to slow down on the way in and keep it slow through the curve. It also tells you to avoid fast turns and quick stops. Slowing before the curve means you are not asking your tires for grip they do not have on ice, snow, or other slick pavement.

Why the other answers are wrong

• A. Shift to a lower gear after starting down a steep hill. — The handbook says to shift to low gear before going down a steep hill, not after you have already started down it.
• B. Speed up to enter curves and slow down to exit them. — That is the reverse of the handbook's advice, which has you slow down as you approach a curve rather than speed up into it.

Remember it

Do your slowing on the straight part of the road, before the curve or intersection, so you are not turning and braking at the same time on slick pavement.