The Massachusetts Driver's Manual contains some errors. The RMV does not seem to care about fixing them.

Once a helpful person on the phone at the RMV encouraged me to report errors and said they would be corrected. However, the next time I called I got an attorney who angrily insisted that nobody in a position of authority would have ever said such a thing. He demanded to know who I had talked to, presumably so he could discourage that person from ever suggesting that the RMV might be wrong or responsive to complaints.

Although the manual says otherwise,

See also http://www.bikexprt.com/bicycle/drivmanl.htm.