People who wish to know what the Austrians stand for have plenty of opportunities just by visiting the Ludwig von Mises Web site or a number of other places on the Web. They won't read it in the daily papers, though, or see it on Fox News.
The idea of a quiz, I believe, is to awaken the latent Austrian in some of us who were otherwise unaware of the Austrian School. (See Agnes Heep's reply, #30 above, as an example.)
Giving FReepers the quiz (at least the ones who are willing to spend the necessary 30 minutes or so and report their scores) lets us know, within a range, who are the believers in free-market capitalism, who think the government needs to regulate the economy, and (may G-d forbid!) who among us are died-in-the-wool socialists.
The quiz also is a learning tool, I think, for those whose education ended with high school.
It in no way resembles that other quiz you refer to, which is political in nature. Did you see anything about politics in the "Are you an Austrian" quiz?
I am sorry you have a negative attitude, but that is a problem for you to address, not for me.
Why should anyone associate with any particular school of thought, whether it is Austrian or Chicago? Ideology is one thing, but putting ideas into practice is another. There's a whole wealth of historical information on economic disasters and successes available for study. It's usually quite easy to see what went right and what went wrong, when one isn't tied to any particular school of thought. Different situations call for different reactions.
I almost never see anyone on FR identify themselves as Austrians or much less offer any type of economic solution for a particular situation. The best I can tell is that they would like to kill off half the population through some sort of economic catastrophe, so that the surviving, suposedly stronger and more capable half can live happily ever after. No wonder it appeals to the Libertarians.
Of course, if I'm wrong, you're going to provide an Austrian way to improve the economy without going through some extended period of human misery, right? The economic system we have now isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job of providing opportunity and a comfortable life for those that live within it.