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For China’s driving test, be ready for just about anything

By Keith B. Richburg

 |  Washington Post  

  April 08, 2012

If you have to suddenly jump out of an overturning vehicle, in which direction do you jump? And then once you hit the ground, what’s the best way to roll? These are not questions on the application for a stuntman’s position on a movie set. Rather, they are real questions from the written test to obtain an ordinary driver’s license in China, and they offer a bizarre, rather frightening window into the world’s most populous and car-craving country.

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