This post would be so much more useful if it had a list of the questions asked, what the wrong answers given were, and an explanation of why the answers were wrong, along with links to the information needed to come up with the right answer.
"shutdown -r" on FreeBSD runs the rc.shutdown script{s}, whereas "reboot" does not.
See this thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-Decem...