diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
index 04e9163..57c2277 100644
--- a/tests.py
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -42,6 +42,19 @@ class EscapeTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_underscore(self):
         self.assertEqual(md('_hey_dude_'), '\_hey\_dude\_')
 
+    def test_xml_entities(self):
+        self.assertEqual(md('&'), '&')
+
+    def test_named_entities(self):
+        self.assertEqual(md('»'), u'\xbb')
+
+    def test_hexadecimal_entities(self):
+        # This looks to be a bug in BeautifulSoup (fixed in bs4) that we have to work around.
+        self.assertEqual(md('''), '\x27')
+
+    def test_single_escaping_entities(self):
+        self.assertEqual(md('&'), '&')
+
 
 class ConversionTests(unittest.TestCase):