diff --git a/django/utils/choices.py b/django/utils/choices.py
index a0611d96f1..734b9331a1 100644
--- a/django/utils/choices.py
+++ b/django/utils/choices.py
@@ -1,11 +1,37 @@
 from collections.abc import Callable, Iterable, Iterator, Mapping
+from itertools import islice, zip_longest
 
 from django.utils.functional import Promise
 
+__all__ = [
+    "BaseChoiceIterator",
+    "CallableChoiceIterator",
+    "normalize_choices",
+]
+
 
 class BaseChoiceIterator:
     """Base class for lazy iterators for choices."""
 
+    def __eq__(self, other):
+        if isinstance(other, Iterable):
+            return all(a == b for a, b in zip_longest(self, other, fillvalue=object()))
+        return super().__eq__(other)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, index):
+        if index < 0:
+            # Suboptimally consume whole iterator to handle negative index.
+            return list(self)[index]
+        try:
+            return next(islice(self, index, index + 1))
+        except StopIteration:
+            raise IndexError("index out of range") from None
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            "BaseChoiceIterator subclasses must implement __iter__()."
+        )
+
 
 class CallableChoiceIterator(BaseChoiceIterator):
     """Iterator to lazily normalize choices generated by a callable."""
diff --git a/tests/utils_tests/test_choices.py b/tests/utils_tests/test_choices.py
index d96c3d49c4..a2ad5541a4 100644
--- a/tests/utils_tests/test_choices.py
+++ b/tests/utils_tests/test_choices.py
@@ -2,10 +2,60 @@ from unittest import mock
 
 from django.db.models import TextChoices
 from django.test import SimpleTestCase
-from django.utils.choices import CallableChoiceIterator, normalize_choices
+from django.utils.choices import (
+    BaseChoiceIterator,
+    CallableChoiceIterator,
+    normalize_choices,
+)
 from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 
 
+class SimpleChoiceIterator(BaseChoiceIterator):
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return ((i, f"Item #{i}") for i in range(1, 4))
+
+
+class ChoiceIteratorTests(SimpleTestCase):
+    def test_not_implemented_error_on_missing_iter(self):
+        class InvalidChoiceIterator(BaseChoiceIterator):
+            pass  # Not overriding __iter__().
+
+        msg = "BaseChoiceIterator subclasses must implement __iter__()."
+        with self.assertRaisesMessage(NotImplementedError, msg):
+            iter(InvalidChoiceIterator())
+
+    def test_eq(self):
+        unrolled = [(1, "Item #1"), (2, "Item #2"), (3, "Item #3")]
+        self.assertEqual(SimpleChoiceIterator(), unrolled)
+        self.assertEqual(unrolled, SimpleChoiceIterator())
+
+    def test_eq_instances(self):
+        self.assertEqual(SimpleChoiceIterator(), SimpleChoiceIterator())
+
+    def test_not_equal_subset(self):
+        self.assertNotEqual(SimpleChoiceIterator(), [(1, "Item #1"), (2, "Item #2")])
+
+    def test_not_equal_superset(self):
+        self.assertNotEqual(
+            SimpleChoiceIterator(),
+            [(1, "Item #1"), (2, "Item #2"), (3, "Item #3"), None],
+        )
+
+    def test_getitem(self):
+        choices = SimpleChoiceIterator()
+        for i, expected in [(0, (1, "Item #1")), (-1, (3, "Item #3"))]:
+            with self.subTest(index=i):
+                self.assertEqual(choices[i], expected)
+
+    def test_getitem_indexerror(self):
+        choices = SimpleChoiceIterator()
+        for i in (4, -4):
+            with self.subTest(index=i):
+                with self.assertRaises(IndexError) as ctx:
+                    choices[i]
+                self.assertTrue(str(ctx.exception).endswith("index out of range"))
+
+
 class NormalizeFieldChoicesTests(SimpleTestCase):
     expected = [
         ("C", _("Club")),
@@ -84,7 +134,7 @@ class NormalizeFieldChoicesTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
         get_choices_spy.assert_not_called()
         self.assertIsInstance(output, CallableChoiceIterator)
-        self.assertEqual(list(output), self.expected)
+        self.assertEqual(output, self.expected)
         get_choices_spy.assert_called_once()
 
     def test_mapping(self):
@@ -134,7 +184,7 @@ class NormalizeFieldChoicesTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
         get_media_choices_spy.assert_not_called()
         self.assertIsInstance(output, CallableChoiceIterator)
-        self.assertEqual(list(output), self.expected_nested)
+        self.assertEqual(output, self.expected_nested)
         get_media_choices_spy.assert_called_once()
 
     def test_nested_mapping(self):
@@ -185,7 +235,7 @@ class NormalizeFieldChoicesTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
         get_choices_spy.assert_not_called()
         self.assertIsInstance(output, CallableChoiceIterator)
-        self.assertEqual(list(output), self.expected)
+        self.assertEqual(output, self.expected)
         get_choices_spy.assert_called_once()
 
     def test_iterable_non_canonical(self):
@@ -230,7 +280,7 @@ class NormalizeFieldChoicesTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
         get_media_choices_spy.assert_not_called()
         self.assertIsInstance(output, CallableChoiceIterator)
-        self.assertEqual(list(output), self.expected_nested)
+        self.assertEqual(output, self.expected_nested)
         get_media_choices_spy.assert_called_once()
 
     def test_nested_iterable_non_canonical(self):
@@ -294,12 +344,12 @@ class NormalizeFieldChoicesTests(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_unsupported_values_from_callable_returned_unmodified(self):
         for value in self.invalid_iterable + self.invalid_nested:
             with self.subTest(value=value):
-                self.assertEqual(list(normalize_choices(lambda: value)), value)
+                self.assertEqual(normalize_choices(lambda: value), value)
 
     def test_unsupported_values_from_iterator_returned_unmodified(self):
         for value in self.invalid_nested:
             with self.subTest(value=value):
                 self.assertEqual(
-                    list(normalize_choices((lambda: (yield from value))())),
+                    normalize_choices((lambda: (yield from value))()),
                     value,
                 )