diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index caceab2..deab355 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     "typescript-eslint-parser": "^21.0.2"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "fake-xml-http-request": "^2.0.0",
+    "fake-xml-http-request": "kellyselden/FakeXMLHttpRequest#response",
     "route-recognizer": "^0.3.3",
     "whatwg-fetch": "^3.0.0"
   },
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 1909e56..ba36f9b 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ function interceptor(ctx) {
     var uploadEvents = [];
 
     // properties to copy from the native xhr to fake xhr
-    var lifecycleProps = ['readyState', 'responseText', 'responseXML', 'responseURL', 'status', 'statusText'];
+    var lifecycleProps = ['readyState', 'responseText', 'response', 'responseXML', 'responseURL', 'status', 'statusText'];
 
     var xhr = fakeXHR._passthroughRequest = new ctx.pretender._nativeXMLHttpRequest();
     xhr.open(fakeXHR.method, fakeXHR.url, fakeXHR.async, fakeXHR.username, fakeXHR.password);
diff --git a/test/calling_test.js b/test/calling_test.js
index d6529eb..f9cc9b2 100644
--- a/test/calling_test.js
+++ b/test/calling_test.js
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ describe('pretender invoking', function(config) {
       assert.equal(verb, 'GET');
       assert.equal(path, '/some/path');
       assert.equal(request.responseText, json);
+      assert.equal(request.response, json);
       assert.equal(request.status, '200');
       done();
     };
@@ -625,6 +626,7 @@ describe('pretender invoking', function(config) {
       assert.equal(verb, 'GET');
       assert.equal(path, '/some/path');
       assert.equal(request.responseText, json);
+      assert.equal(request.response, json);
       assert.equal(request.status, '200');
       done();
     };
diff --git a/test/passthrough_test.js b/test/passthrough_test.js
index 67e9541..8a483a8 100644
--- a/test/passthrough_test.js
+++ b/test/passthrough_test.js
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ describe('passthrough requests', function(config) {
       this.open = function() {};
       this.setRequestHeader = function() {};
       this.responseText = '';
+      this.response = '';
       this.onload = true;
       this.send = {
         pretender: pretender,
@@ -328,6 +329,11 @@ describe('passthrough requests', function(config) {
         event.target.responseText,
         'responseText for real and fake xhr are both blank strings'
       );
+      assert.equal(
+        xhr.response,
+        event.target.response,
+        'response for real and fake xhr are both blank strings'
+      );
       done();
     });
 
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 3983a71..eacc8ef 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1483,10 +1483,9 @@ extsprintf@^1.2.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/extsprintf/-/extsprintf-1.4.0.tgz#e2689f8f356fad62cca65a3a91c5df5f9551692f"
   integrity sha1-4mifjzVvrWLMplo6kcXfX5VRaS8=
 
-fake-xml-http-request@^2.0.0:
-  version "2.0.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/fake-xml-http-request/-/fake-xml-http-request-2.0.0.tgz#41a92f0ca539477700cb1dafd2df251d55dac8ff"
-  integrity sha512-UjNnynb6eLAB0lyh2PlTEkjRJORnNsVF1hbzU+PQv89/cyBV9GDRCy7JAcLQgeCLYT+3kaumWWZKEJvbaK74eQ==
+fake-xml-http-request@kellyselden/FakeXMLHttpRequest#response:
+  version "2.0.1"
+  resolved "https://codeload.github.com/kellyselden/FakeXMLHttpRequest/tar.gz/a61474cc8cca4009f24f30fe42b3f6ba7ee4609e"
 
 fast-deep-equal@^2.0.1:
   version "2.0.1"