diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unicode.py
@@ -683,6 +683,28 @@
         for encoding in ('utf-8',):
             self.assertEqual(unicode(u.encode(encoding),encoding), u)
 
+    def test_codecs_unicode_escape(self):
+        # issue 7615:  escape quotes
+        u = u'a\'b"c\'\'\'d"""e'
+        for q in ("'", '"', "'''", '"""'):
+            self.assertEqual(
+                eval('u' + q + u.encode('unicode_escape') + q), u)
+
+    def test_codecs_raw_unicode_escape(self):
+        # issue 7615:  escape quotes
+        u = u'a\'b"c\'\'\'d"""e'
+        for q in ("'", '"', "'''", '"""'):
+            self.assertEqual(
+                eval('ur' + q + u.encode('raw_unicode_escape') + q), u)
+
+        # issue 7615:  escape backslashes
+        for u in (
+            u'\\', # eval should not raise SyntaxError
+            u'\\u0066\\U00000067', # should not eval to u'fg'
+            ):
+            self.assertEqual(
+                eval("ur'" + u.encode('raw_unicode_escape') + "'"), u)
+
     def test_codecs_charmap(self):
         # 0-127
         s = ''.join(map(chr, xrange(128)))