diff --git a/tests/test_jsonld.py b/tests/test_jsonld.py
index 6f9699d6..7b4eb953 100644
--- a/tests/test_jsonld.py
+++ b/tests/test_jsonld.py
@@ -931,3 +931,19 @@ def test_empty_context(self):
         input = {'http://schema.org/codeRepository': {'@id': 'http:'}}
         compacted = jsonld.compact(input, {})
         assert compacted == input
+
+    # Issue 61
+    def test_compact_arrays(self):
+        """
+        Compacting with an empty context should return the input unchanged.
+        """
+        input = {
+            "key1": "abc",
+            "key2": ["abc", "def"]
+        }
+        expected = {
+            "key1": "abc",
+            "key2": ["abc", "def"]
+        }
+        compacted = jsonld.compact(input, {}, {"compactArrays": True})
+        assert compacted == expected