diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1e97abf15..93a4dff32 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ search = '__version__: str = "{current_version}"'
 [tool.cibuildwheel]
 build-verbosity = "1"
 free-threaded-support = true
-test-requires = ["pytest>=6", "importlib_metadata"]
+test-requires = ["pytest>=6", "importlib_metadata", "exceptiongroup;python_version<'3.11'"]
 test-command = "pytest -vsx {package}/tools/test_wheel.py"
 
 [tool.cibuildwheel.linux]
diff --git a/tests/test_asyncio.py b/tests/test_asyncio.py
index e2ec0c82c..196e9d088 100644
--- a/tests/test_asyncio.py
+++ b/tests/test_asyncio.py
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 import zmq
 import zmq.asyncio as zaio
 
+if version_info < (3, 11):
+    from exceptiongroup import BaseExceptionGroup, ExceptionGroup
+
+
 pytestmark = pytest.mark.anyio