TLE 3RD QUARTER EXAMINATION

Name: Date:
Grade and Section: Score
Test I. MULTIPLE CHOICE:
DIRECTIONS: Read each item carefully; then choose the letter
of the best answer.
1. What stroke literally ‘wings’ out the tension and toxins stored in
muscles?
A) Kneading B) Wringing C) Cupping D) Flicking
2. What technique requires medium pressure and should be
applied only after the muscle has been relaxed, usually on large,
fleshy areas is.
A) Kneading B) Mirrored hands C) Wringing D) Alternate hands
3. What stroke describes chopping movement?
A) Flicking B) Cupping C) Pummeling D) Hacking
4. What stroke is sometimes called pounding performed with a flick
of the wrist?
A) Cupping B) Hacking C) Pummeling D) Flicking
5. What technique is sometimes called plucking?
A) Cupping B) Flicking C) Pummeling D) Wringing
6. Which of the following is not a distinct area for body massage?
A) Legs B) Shoulder C) Torso D) Breast
7. What is the simplest technique to perform in body massage?
A) Effleurage B) Petrissage C) Percussion D) Friction
8. What stroke is applied only to large well padded areas of
muscles?
A) Cupping B) Tickling C) Circling D) Pummeling
9. What do you call the curling hands into loose fist and rotating
fingers to make circular movement?
A) Straight knuckling C) Thumb rolling
B) Rocking D) Circular friction
10. What technique is used to soothe and calm when completing a
massage sequence?
A) Feathering C) Grounding
B) Rocking D) Cupping
11. ____ In chopping movement and with a flick of the wrist, bring
hands down alternately 4-5 cm apart in your partners body surface.
A) Hacking C) Rocking
B) Cupping D) Flicking
12. ____ With a straight fingers, bring your thumbs and fingertips
down unto your partner’s skin and in a quick action, take up small
piece of fleshy and let it slip easily away with each stroke, turning
your wrist very lightly as your release.
A) Flicking C) Hacking
B) Cupping D) Grounding
13. ____ Place your thumbs on his/her in steps and the palms of
your hand on the fronts or soles of her feet, applying a strong
pressure for at least 30 seconds.
A) Cupping C) Flicking
B) Grounding D) Hacking
14. ____ Following the same procedure, work your hands
alternately, one hand squeezing downward and stretching upward,
followed by the other.
A) Wringing C) Alternate hands
B) Kneading D) Cupping

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15. ____ With your hands on top of the muscle, squeeze the heels
of your hands downward, each hand mirroring the other. Slide the
heel of your hands up ward over the muscle.
A) Cupped C) Alternate hands
B) Circular Friction D) Mirrored hands
16. ____ Work one hand at a time, with your fingers slightly apart,
apply pressure through your finger tips by moving the tissues over
the body’s structure in a small circular movement.
A) Circling C) Cupping
B) Wringing D) Circular Friction
17. ____ To rock the legs, get your partner to lie face up. Place
your hands on either side of the thigh, rock the leg back and forth
between your hands, moving slowly down the leg, and finish by
stroking the toes.
A) Rocking C) Straight knuckling
B) Wringing D) Completing the massage
18. What is Effleurage?
A) Hard friction, without lube C) Light friction, with lube
B) Light friction, without lube D) Starts massage
19. Which is not a physical effect of massage
A) Increase blood flow
B) Relief pain
C) Increase nutrition to tissues
D) Removes waste products
20. Performed with hands on opposite side of limbs, use entire
palmar surface of the hands. Gentle pressure used with hands
working in opposite directions.
A) Kneading C) Stroking
B) Effleurage D) Friction

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TEST II.
DIRECTIONS: Take this 10-item True or False. Write the word
TRUE if the statement is correct and the word FALSE if
otherwise. Use your answer sheet.
1. ____ Alternate hand is working hands alternately and one
hand squeezing downward and stretching upward, followed by
the other
2. ____ Wringing is using the whole of your hand with the thumb
close to the fingers?
3. ____ Kneading is using a chopping movement
4. ____ Hacking is using a chopping movement
5. ____ Circling used the whole of your hand with the thumb
close to the fingers
6. ____ Effleurage is the simplest technique to perform and can
be used everywhere in the body
7. ____ Cupping is making a cup shape movement with your
hands
8. ____ Feathering technique is used to soothe and calm when
completing a massage sequence
9. ____ Mirrored hands is using your hand on top of muscle,
squeeze the heels of your hands downward, each hand
mirroring the other
10. ____ Pummeling is using a straight fingers, then bring your
thumbs and fingertips down unto your partner’s skin in a quick
action.
TEST III.
DIRECTIONS: Matching type. Connect column A to B. Write
only the letter of the best answer.
COLUMN A
a. Hacking e. Wringing i. Grounding
b. Cupping f. Flat-handed j. Alternate hands
c. Cupped g. Circling
d. Pummeling h. Straight knuckling

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Column B.