diff --git a/Lib/test/test_memoryview.py b/Lib/test/test_memoryview.py
index 69b9d2dbc28..e9bd9fdf82c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_memoryview.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_memoryview.py
@@ -361,7 +361,9 @@ class AbstractMemoryTests:
             self.assertEqual(list(reversed(m)), list(m[::-1]))
 
     def test_issue22668(self):
-        m = memoryview(bytes(range(8)))
+        a = array.array('H', [256, 256, 256, 256])
+        x = memoryview(a)
+        m = x.cast('B')
         b = m.cast('H')
         c = b[0:2]
         d = memoryview(b)