diff --git a/test/Trait/DefinitionTest.js b/test/Trait/DefinitionTest.js
index ad2897d..cbaff31 100644
--- a/test/Trait/DefinitionTest.js
+++ b/test/Trait/DefinitionTest.js
@@ -245,21 +245,4 @@ require( 'common' ).testCase(
 
         this.fail( false, true, "Mixin must fail on conflict: " + desc );
     },
-
-
-    'Private class members are not accessible to used traits': function()
-    {
-        // TODO: this is not yet the case
-    },
-
-
-    /**
-     * Traits will need to be able to keep and manipulate their own internal
-     * state.
-     */
-    'Private trait members are not accessible to containing class':
-    function()
-    {
-        // TODO: this is not yet the case
-    },
 } );
diff --git a/test/Trait/ScopeTest.js b/test/Trait/ScopeTest.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b39ada2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/Trait/ScopeTest.js
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+/**
+ * Tests trait scoping
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 2014 Mike Gerwitz
+ *
+ *  This file is part of GNU ease.js.
+ *
+ *  ease.js is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *  GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+require( 'common' ).testCase(
+{
+    caseSetUp: function()
+    {
+        this.Sut   = this.require( 'Trait' );
+        this.Class = this.require( 'class' );
+    },
+
+
+    /**
+     * Since the private scope of classes and the traits that they use are
+     * disjoint, traits should never be able to access any private member of
+     * a class that uses it.
+     *
+     * The beauty of this is that we get this ``feature'' for free with
+     * our composition-based trait implementation.
+     */
+    'Private class members are not accessible to used traits': function()
+    {
+        var T = this.Sut(
+        {
+            // attempts to access C._priv
+            'public getPriv': function() { return this._priv; },
+
+            // attempts to invoke C._privMethod
+            'public invokePriv': function() { this._privMethod(); },
+        } );
+
+        var inst = this.Class.use( T ).extend(
+        {
+            'private _priv': 'foo',
+            'private _privMethod': function() {},
+        } )();
+
+        this.assertEqual( inst.getPriv(), undefined );
+        this.assertThrows( function()
+        {
+            inst.invokePriv();
+        }, Error );
+    },
+
+
+    /**
+     * Similar concept to the above---class and trait scopes are disjoint.
+     * This is particularily important, since traits will have no idea what
+     * other traits they will be mixed in with and therefore must be immune
+     * from nasty state clashes.
+     */
+    'Private trait members are not accessible to containing class':
+    function()
+    {
+        var T = this.Sut(
+        {
+            'private _priv': 'bar',
+            'private _privMethod': function() {},
+        } );
+
+        // reverse of the previous test case
+        var inst = this.Class.use( T ).extend(
+        {
+            // attempts to access T._priv
+            'public getPriv': function() { return this._priv; },
+
+            // attempts to invoke T._privMethod
+            'public invokePriv': function() { this._privMethod(); },
+        } )();
+
+
+        this.assertEqual( inst.getPriv(), undefined );
+        this.assertThrows( function()
+        {
+            inst.invokePriv();
+        }, Error );
+    },
+
+
+    /**
+     * Since all scopes are disjoint, it would stand to reason that all
+     * traits should also have their own private scope independent of other
+     * traits that are mixed into the same class. This is also very
+     * important for the same reasons as the previous test---we cannot have
+     * state clashes between traits.
+     */
+    'Traits do not have access to each others\' private members': function()
+    {
+        var T1 = this.Sut(
+            {
+                'private _priv1': 'foo',
+                'private _privMethod1': function() {},
+            } ),
+            T2 = this.Sut(
+            {
+                // attempts to access T1._priv1
+                'public getPriv': function() { return this._priv1; },
+
+                // attempts to invoke T1._privMethod1
+                'public invokePriv': function() { this._privMethod1(); },
+            } );
+
+        var inst = this.Class.use( T1, T2 ).extend( {} )();
+
+        this.assertEqual( inst.getPriv(), undefined );
+        this.assertThrows( function()
+        {
+            inst.invokePriv();
+        }, Error );
+    },
+} );