diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index 3a217dc..2d37cc3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -349,6 +349,14 @@ class MiscReadTest(CommonReadTest):
         finally:
             tar.close()
 
+    def test_extract_directory(self):
+        dirtype = "ustar/dirtype"
+        with tarfile.open(tarname, encoding="iso8859-1") as tar:
+            tarinfo = tar.getmember(dirtype)
+            tar.extract(tarinfo)
+            self.assertEqual(os.path.getmtime(dirtype), tarinfo.mtime)
+            self.assertEqual(os.stat(dirtype).st_mode & 0o777, 0o755)
+
     def test_init_close_fobj(self):
         # Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile
         # constructor in case of an error. For the test we rely on