I believe the correct interpretation of the whole poem is that the mistress's desire to preserve her honor and chastity makes no sense because her body will be devoured by worms after her death.
She should not be afraid to love and be loved while she is still alive.
The quality of the beat generation that Kerouac expresses in this excerpt is a spirit of adventure.
You can see in this passage that he is talking about his 'life on the road' - meaning that he is always traveling and experiencing new things, which was a common thing for the beat generation of the 1960s. They wanted a change, both in their personal lives, and in the world.
I would sat that the answer which best explains the consequences of the mass hysteria that took place during the Salem witch trials is that <u>innocent people were wrongfully accused of witchcraft and put on trial.</u>
Many women were accused of being witches just because they did something in a different manner from the other people.
Mary inherited her brown curly hair, her height, her eye color, and her freckles from her parents.
The evidence that her brown curly hair was inherited from her parents is that it was mentioned that she had this trait like her mother and father, and hair color/curliness is a trait that is inherited from parent to child.
Freckles and eye color is also a trait that is inherited from parent to child.