diff --git a/tests/roots/test-ext-todo/index.rst b/tests/roots/test-ext-todo/index.rst
index 6b95f73fd..781473d6a 100644
--- a/tests/roots/test-ext-todo/index.rst
+++ b/tests/roots/test-ext-todo/index.rst
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ test for sphinx.ext.todo
    bar
 
 .. todolist::
+
+.. todolist::
diff --git a/tests/test_ext_todo.py b/tests/test_ext_todo.py
index 6a4789928..cee59fe9d 100644
--- a/tests/test_ext_todo.py
+++ b/tests/test_ext_todo.py
@@ -99,11 +99,13 @@ def test_todo_valid_link(app, status, warning):
 
     content = (app.outdir / 'TodoTests.tex').text()
 
-    # Look for the link to foo. We could equally well look for the link to bar.
+    # Look for the link to foo. Note that there are two of them because the
+    # source document uses todolist twice. We could equally well look for links
+    # to bar.
     link = r'\{\\hyperref\[\\detokenize\{(.*?foo.*?)}]\{\\sphinxcrossref{' \
         r'\\sphinxstyleemphasis{original entry}}}}'
     m = re.findall(link, content)
-    assert len(m) == 1
+    assert len(m) == 2
     target = m[0]
 
     # Look for the targets of this link.