“Saint Junior”

On one level, the Colonial Aptitude Test (CAT) that both Roman and Grace take as part of the admissions process to college represents the sort of racism that they each, or both, have to overcome to achieve success and/or honor their own identities. On another level, the name of the CAT becomes a point of authorial satire, or exaggeration of an actuality for both comic and political effect. This sense of how the term is used comes into play when the reader realizes that in actuality, a test represented by the term CAT actually does exist. In reality, though, the anagram stands for Comprehensive Assessment Test. The sense here is that the author has changed the phrase from which the anagram is taken in order to satirize the colonialist, racialized sensibilities that, as the narration in the story comments, are associated with such tests.