diff -ru defusedxml-0.4.1-orig/tests.py defusedxml-0.4.1/tests.py
--- defusedxml-0.4.1-orig/tests.py	2015-07-17 05:28:36.501213026 +0000
+++ defusedxml-0.4.1/tests.py	2015-07-17 05:21:51.633843568 +0000
@@ -133,11 +133,12 @@
             self.iterparse(self.xml_simple_ns)
 
     def test_entities_forbidden(self):
-        self.assertRaises(EntitiesForbidden, self.parse, self.xml_bomb)
+        self.assertRaises((EntitiesForbidden, XMLSyntaxError),
+                          self.parse, self.xml_bomb)
         self.assertRaises(EntitiesForbidden, self.parse, self.xml_quadratic)
         self.assertRaises(EntitiesForbidden, self.parse, self.xml_external)
 
-        self.assertRaises(EntitiesForbidden, self.parseString,
+        self.assertRaises((EntitiesForbidden, XMLSyntaxError), self.parseString,
                           self.get_content(self.xml_bomb))
         self.assertRaises(EntitiesForbidden, self.parseString,
                           self.get_content(self.xml_quadratic))
@@ -157,8 +158,8 @@
                           forbid_entities=False)
 
     def test_dtd_forbidden(self):
-        self.assertRaises(DTDForbidden, self.parse, self.xml_bomb,
-                          forbid_dtd=True)
+        self.assertRaises((DTDForbidden, XMLSyntaxError), self.parse,
+                          self.xml_bomb, forbid_dtd=True)
         self.assertRaises(DTDForbidden, self.parse, self.xml_quadratic,
                           forbid_dtd=True)
         self.assertRaises(DTDForbidden, self.parse, self.xml_external,
@@ -166,7 +167,7 @@
         self.assertRaises(DTDForbidden, self.parse, self.xml_dtd,
                           forbid_dtd=True)
 
-        self.assertRaises(DTDForbidden, self.parseString,
+        self.assertRaises((DTDForbidden, XMLSyntaxError), self.parseString,
                           self.get_content(self.xml_bomb),
                           forbid_dtd=True)
         self.assertRaises(DTDForbidden, self.parseString,
@@ -355,8 +356,11 @@
         pass
 
     def test_restricted_element1(self):
-        tree = self.module.parse(self.xml_bomb, forbid_dtd=False,
-                                 forbid_entities=False)
+        try:
+            tree = self.module.parse(self.xml_bomb, forbid_dtd=False,
+                                     forbid_entities=False)
+        except XMLSyntaxError:
+            return
         root = tree.getroot()
         self.assertEqual(root.text, None)