diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pyrepl/test_interact.py b/Lib/test/test_pyrepl/test_interact.py
index c3204832a6a93a..af5d4d0e67632a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pyrepl/test_interact.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pyrepl/test_interact.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def test_multiple_statements_fail_early(self):
         console = InteractiveColoredConsole()
         code = dedent("""\
         raise Exception('foobar')
-        print('spam&eggs')
+        print('spam', 'eggs', sep='&')
         """)
         f = io.StringIO()
         with contextlib.redirect_stderr(f):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_repl.py b/Lib/test/test_repl.py
index 228b326699e75f..304256ee65fb82 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_repl.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_repl.py
@@ -296,12 +296,12 @@ def f():
 
 class TestAsyncioREPL(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_multiple_statements_fail_early(self):
-        user_input = "1 / 0; print(f'afterwards: {1+1}')"
+        user_input = "1 / 0; print('after' + 'wards')"
         p = spawn_repl("-m", "asyncio")
         p.stdin.write(user_input)
         output = kill_python(p)
         self.assertIn("ZeroDivisionError", output)
-        self.assertNotIn("afterwards: 2", output)
+        self.assertNotIn("afterwards", output)
 
     def test_toplevel_contextvars_sync(self):
         user_input = dedent("""\
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-30-22-49-42.gh-issue-128231.SuEC18.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-30-22-49-42.gh-issue-128231.SuEC18.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..a70b6a1fc14d63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-30-22-49-42.gh-issue-128231.SuEC18.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Execution of multiple statements in the new REPL now stops immediately upon
+the first exception encountered. Patch by Bartosz Sławecki.