diff --git a/IPython/core/tests/test_prefilter.py b/IPython/core/tests/test_prefilter.py
index 9b7161d..3575a98 100644
--- a/IPython/core/tests/test_prefilter.py
+++ b/IPython/core/tests/test_prefilter.py
@@ -53,7 +53,16 @@ def test_autocall_binops():
 def test_issue114():
     """Check that multiline string literals don't expand as magic
     see http://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/#issue/114"""
+
     template = '"""\n%s\n"""'
-    for mgk in ip.lsmagic():
-        raw = template % mgk
-        yield nt.assert_equals(ip.prefilter(raw), raw)
+    # Store the current value of multi_line_specials and turn it off before
+    # running test, since it could be true (case in which the test doesn't make
+    # sense, as multiline string literals *will* expand as magic in that case).
+    msp = ip.prefilter_manager.multi_line_specials
+    ip.prefilter_manager.multi_line_specials = False
+    try:
+        for mgk in ip.lsmagic():
+            raw = template % mgk
+            yield nt.assert_equals(ip.prefilter(raw), raw)
+    finally:
+        ip.prefilter_manager.multi_line_specials = msp