you have misunderstood the problem. While $q(\underline{v})$ is induced by the bilinear form $f(\underline{u}, \underline{v})=\underline{v}^TA\underline{u}$, where $A$ is your $3\times 3$ coefficient matrix, $q$ is quadratic , not bilinear, also not a linear transformation. So, what you are asked to do is to find a decomposition of the form $A =