diff --git a/includes/entity.inc b/includes/entity.inc
index 25f7584..dc43e73 100644
--- a/includes/entity.inc
+++ b/includes/entity.inc
@@ -360,9 +360,23 @@ class DrupalDefaultEntityController implements DrupalEntityControllerInterface {
     // This ensures the same behavior whether loading from memory or database.
     if ($conditions) {
       foreach ($entities as $entity) {
-        $entity_values = (array) $entity;
-        if (array_diff_assoc($conditions, $entity_values)) {
-          unset($entities[$entity->{$this->idKey}]);
+        // Iterate over all conditions and compare them to the entity
+        // properties. We cannot use array_diff_assoc() here since the
+        // conditions can be nested arrays, too.
+        foreach ($conditions as $property_name => $condition) {
+          if (is_array($condition)) {
+            // Multiple condition values for one property are treated as OR
+            // operation: only if the value is not at all in the condition array
+            // we remove the entity.
+            if (!in_array($entity->{$property_name}, $condition)) {
+              unset($entities[$entity->{$this->idKey}]);
+              continue 2;
+            }
+          }
+          elseif ($condition != $entity->{$property_name}) {
+            unset($entities[$entity->{$this->idKey}]);
+            continue 2;
+          }
         }
       }
     }
diff --git a/modules/simpletest/simpletest.info b/modules/simpletest/simpletest.info
index 5583c2f..7b139ba 100644
--- a/modules/simpletest/simpletest.info
+++ b/modules/simpletest/simpletest.info
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ files[] = tests/bootstrap.test
 files[] = tests/cache.test
 files[] = tests/common.test
 files[] = tests/database_test.test
+files[] = tests/entity_crud.test
 files[] = tests/entity_crud_hook_test.test
 files[] = tests/entity_query.test
 files[] = tests/error.test
diff --git a/modules/simpletest/tests/entity_crud.test b/modules/simpletest/tests/entity_crud.test
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..04d2fad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/simpletest/tests/entity_crud.test
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Tests for the Entity CRUD API.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Tests the entity_load() function.
+ */
+class EntityLoadTestCase extends DrupalWebTestCase {
+  protected $profile = 'testing';
+
+  public static function getInfo() {
+    return array(
+      'name' => 'Entity loading',
+      'description' => 'Tests the entity_load() function.',
+      'group' => 'Entity API',
+    );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Tests the functionality for loading entities matching certain conditions.
+   */
+  public function testEntityLoadConditions() {
+    // Create a few nodes. One of them is given an edge-case title of "Array",
+    // because loading entities by an array of conditions is subject to PHP
+    // array-to-string conversion issues and we want to test those.
+    $node_1 = $this->drupalCreateNode(array('title' => 'Array'));
+    $node_2 = $this->drupalCreateNode(array('title' => 'Node 2'));
+    $node_3 = $this->drupalCreateNode(array('title' => 'Node 3'));
+
+    // Check that the first node can be loaded by title.
+    $nodes_loaded = entity_load('node', FALSE, array('title' => 'Array'));
+    ksort($nodes_loaded);
+    $this->assertEqual(array_keys($nodes_loaded), array($node_1->nid));
+
+    // Check that the second and third nodes can be loaded by title using an
+    // array of conditions, and that the first node is not loaded from the
+    // cache along with them.
+    $nodes_loaded = entity_load('node', FALSE, array('title' => array('Node 2', 'Node 3')));
+    ksort($nodes_loaded);
+    $this->assertEqual(array_keys($nodes_loaded), array($node_2->nid, $node_3->nid));
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.test b/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.test
index 665f9ae..fdf354b 100644
--- a/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.test
+++ b/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.test
@@ -690,15 +690,20 @@ class TaxonomyTermTestCase extends TaxonomyWebTestCase {
       $term_objects[$key] = reset($term_objects[$key]);
     }
 
+    // Test editing the node.
+    $node = $this->drupalGetNodeByTitle($edit["title"]);
+    $this->drupalPost('node/' . $node->nid . '/edit', $edit, t('Save'));
+    foreach ($terms as $term) {
+      $this->assertText($term, 'The term was retained after edit and still appears on the node page.');
+    }
+
     // Delete term 1.
     $this->drupalPost('taxonomy/term/' . $term_objects['term1']->tid . '/edit', array(), t('Delete'));
     $this->drupalPost(NULL, NULL, t('Delete'));
     $term_names = array($term_objects['term2']->name, $term_objects['term3']->name);
 
-    // Get the node.
-    $node = $this->drupalGetNodeByTitle($edit["title"]);
+    // Get the node and verify that the terms that should be there still are.
     $this->drupalGet('node/' . $node->nid);
-
     foreach ($term_names as $term_name) {
       $this->assertText($term_name, format_string('The term %name appears on the node page after one term %deleted was deleted', array('%name' => $term_name, '%deleted' => $term_objects['term1']->name)));
     }