diff --git a/scrapy/utils/test.py b/scrapy/utils/test.py
index 307c25352..0f4cf8091 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/test.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/test.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """
 This module contains some assorted functions used in tests
 """
-
+import asyncio
 import os
 
 from importlib import import_module
@@ -96,3 +96,10 @@ def assert_samelines(testcase, text1, text2, msg=None):
     line endings between platforms
     """
     testcase.assertEqual(text1.splitlines(), text2.splitlines(), msg)
+
+
+def get_from_asyncio_queue(value):
+    q = asyncio.Queue()
+    getter = q.get()
+    q.put_nowait(value)
+    return getter
diff --git a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware.py b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware.py
index 3943cecf7..3dd4f2351 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware.py
+++ b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from scrapy.http import Request, Response
 from scrapy.spiders import Spider
 from scrapy.exceptions import _InvalidOutput
 from scrapy.core.downloader.middleware import DownloaderMiddlewareManager
-from scrapy.utils.test import get_crawler
+from scrapy.utils.test import get_crawler, get_from_asyncio_queue
 from scrapy.utils.python import to_bytes
 
 
@@ -240,7 +240,8 @@ class MiddlewareUsingCoro(ManagerTestCase):
         class CoroMiddleware:
             async def process_request(self, request, spider):
                 await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
-                return resp
+                result = await get_from_asyncio_queue(resp)
+                return result
 
         self.mwman._add_middleware(CoroMiddleware())
         req = Request('http://example.com/index.html')