diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index a0946472..9c5a7044 100755
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -589,6 +589,7 @@ class RequestsTestSuite(unittest.TestCase):
         assert r1.content
 
         r2 = requests.get(httpbin('get'), prefetch=True)
+        assert r2._content
         assert r2.content
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':